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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
New Tack Against Term Paper Providers - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
The Internet did not create the market for buying and selling term papers, but it has undoubtedly enabled it. And while states have passed laws aiming to restrict the sale of term papers, and a few colleges have sued essay providers under those laws, they’ve made relatively little headway in cracking down on the companies that sell term papers — or, in turn, stemming the tide of students who plagiarize by passing them off as their own. Wednesday, a new front was opened in the campaign. Lawyers for a graduate student named Blue Macellari filed a lawsuit in federal court in Illinois alleging that three Web sites that sell term papers made a manuscript she had written available without her permission. She is charging the owner of the sites (as well as the sites’ Internet service provider) with copyright infringement, consumer fraud and invasion of privacy, among other things.
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