Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary

When professors send students' papers to a database, are copyrights violated?

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

When electronic tools to ferret out student plagiarism hit the market a few years ago, colleges saw them as easy-to-use and affordable. But now some college lawyers and professors are warning that one of the most widely used plagiarism-detection services may be trampling...

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