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Turnitin.com Defeats Students in Legal Challenge


I wrote almost exactly a year ago about the lawsuit against Turnitin.com filed by several Virginia high school students, alleging that the anti-plagiarism service violated the students’ intellectual property rights. Then, I said, “Does Turnitin have a valid defense? There are two likely possibilities: fair use, and license.” My predictions (unlike, say, […]

See Me Speak at SXSW 2008: Web Accessibility and the Law


If you run a business, and you have a website, you may or may not know whether disabled users - the blind, the mobility-impaired, and others - can access your web site with their helper technology. And, from a lawyer’s perspective, even more important, you may not know whether you are violating federal law […]