Surely students own the copyright in their work, unless they have
expressly assigned it to the university? As far as I am aware, there is
no such requirement at my institution (Leeds).
George MacDonald Ross.
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From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
E.V.Brack
Sent: 21 April 2004 10:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: follow-up to thesispress.com
Dear All,
in February I sent an e-mail about a student who had created an essay
bank site as part of an assignment (www.thesispress.com), and published
it on the web.
I had to write him a letter saying that the university was displeased
with him but I wasn't sure exactly which regulation he'd broken.
Anyway, after some assistance from the university admin, we decided that
he'd contravened 2 regulations:
1. the University owns the IPR of any work submitted for assessment, so
it is not his to do with as he likes.
2. University computing facilities cannot be used for any commercial
purposes.
We did also point out that his site encourages plagiarism which is
prohibited by the University regulations. He was asked to withdraw the
site but I see it's still there!
Verity Brack
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Dr E V Brack
Access & Flexible Learning Development Officer
Institute for Lifelong Learning
University of Sheffield
196-8 West Street
SHEFFIELD S1 4ET
tel: +44 (0)114 222 7085
fax: +44 (0)114 222 7001
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