Electronic Plagiarism-Detection Tool Ruling may have Google Implications

Last Wednesday, March 26, 2008, a federal judge ruled that TurnItIn.com, a commercial plagiarism-detection tool does not in fact violate the copyright of students, even though it stores digital copies of their essays in the database that the company uses to check works for academic dishonesty. Click here to read more about the implications of this decision for digital services, such as Google's effort to scan books in major libraries and add them to its index for search purposes.