If the students are using Turnitin through a plug-in to Blackboard,
WebCT etc, then they don't have to create an account on the Turnitin
site and won't be explicitly signing up to the statement that Paul D
quotes.
Nigel Robertson
University of Waikato
-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul
Cecil
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:01 a.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Interesting Turnitin problem
Paul
I doubt it is clear enough to alert a student to the fact that they
shouldn't put a friend's material through it on a non-commercial basis.
There's very possibly a limiting clause under 'transfer', but that looks
partially undermined by the subsequent clause which seems to limit to
the
restrictions on third-party usage to a commercial context.
If I want to put a friend's piece of work through it, there's nothing to
stop me. And if they are sitting in the room, they get the results
without
even considering the issue of 'transfer'.
Paul Cecil
University of Sussex
--On 27 February 2008 16:32 +0000 Paul Davis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> The Turnitin conditions which students sign up to state:
> "Personal and noncommercial use limitation
> This web site is for your personal and noncommercial use. You may not
> modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce,
publish,
> license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any
information,
> software, products or services obtained from this web site. A user may
not
> market, rent, lease, or re-license the licensed programs or services,
or
> use the licensed programs or services for third party commercial use,
> commercial timesharing, or service bureau use."
>
> I'd say that was fairly specific that they cannot submit other
people's
> work. This isn't a free service - its licence is paid for by an
> institution!
> Paul
>
>
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> % -----Original Message-----
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> % Thank you for all your interesting comments. The other University
> % involved in my case has a policy that states that students may only
> submit % their own work to the Turnitin service and not anyone else's;
> do others % follow that rule?
> %
> % Loughborough has discussed allowing students to use Turnitin
themselves,
> % but for reasons I suspect more to do with the complexity of allowing
so
> % many people access than anything else, has decided not to go down
that
> % road.
> %
> % Charles
> %
> %
> % Professor Charles Oppenheim
> % Head
> % Department of Information Science
> % Loughborough University
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