Are Automated Plagiarism Detection Programs Violating Copyrights?
Dave thinks they are over in the reader blogs:
Turnitin adds to its database every single paper it receives. In other words, if your professor submits your paper to Turnitin, Turnitin keeps that paper, and compares all future papers to it. So, the more people use Turnitin, the bigger its database gets, and on and on. They are the only anti-plagiarism service that retains all its selections, and it is for that reason it can boast the biggest database, and get the most clients and make the most money.
What this means to you—the student—is alarming. To make this very simple, Turnitin takes your papers, copies them to a database, and makes money by charging other people to use them. This blatantly violates the copyright you have on your work. You are the author; you created this paper—and now a company can take your paper from you, make money off it, and provide you with no compensation.
Read the whole thing.
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