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NEWS: Student Suing Websites For Selling Her Paper

mat8drb

United Kingdom

October 2004

SEP 03, 2005 06:44 PM

CULTURE: Student Suing Websites For Selling Her Paper

On-line services for exam paper answers, coursework and end of term reports have been available for the students who can't be bothered or don't have time to do the work themselves. Some U.S. states have passed laws to trying to stem the tide of these sites, by restricting the sale of papers. However, one graduate student is going a little further herself: she's suing them for stealing her work.

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.

According to Macellaris complaint, a friend doing a casual Google search of Macellaris name last January came across references to a paper she had written during a year abroad at the University of Cape Town in 1998, which Macellari had posted in 1999 on a personal Web site at Mount Holyoke College, where she earned her degree.

But the friend found links to the paper not on her Mount Holyoke page but on two Web sites, DoingMyHomework.com and FreeforEssays.com, that said the paper was in their databases. Macellari says she later found several hundred words of her paper on another site, FreeforTermPapers.com

These three sites are all owned and operated by one company, and by Thursday, the paper had vanished from websites but not from search engine caches.. Internet Law expert John Palfrey says that if Macellari's claims are true, then its going to be hard for the defendants to win the case. Let's hope they get what's coming to them.

Vestril

Coronado, CA

February 2003

SEP 03, 2005 09:40 PM

Awesome, a victory for real A-students everywhere Well, potential victory...

[Edited on Sep 03, 2005 9:40PM]

_biblia_

Tuvalu

March 2005

SEP 03, 2005 09:42 PM

I actually kind of wish I'd sold my writing skills in college, rather that working in the college Writer's Center tutoring program for a mere $8 an hour. . . . .

plankton

I'm lost

December 2004

SEP 04, 2005 02:04 AM

A students never win. It's the B+ students that have all the fun.

_Elichrusos

Australia

November 2004

SEP 04, 2005 06:05 AM

Good for her! I abhor these companies and the mockery they make of education.

_Elichrusos

Australia

November 2004

SEP 04, 2005 06:06 AM

plankton said:
A students never win. It's the B+ students that have all the fun.

Speak for yourself. I've been known to attend major examinations four shots down, and I'm an honours student.

messyjessie

Marco Island, FL

July 2004

SEP 04, 2005 09:28 AM

good for her! i hope she wins.

Clairevoyance

Tallahassee, FL

July 2004

SEP 04, 2005 09:45 AM

i hope she wins too!

mamet

Charleston, SC

March 2005

SEP 04, 2005 10:20 AM

Good for her. Fuck those sites.

Vestril

Coronado, CA

February 2003

SEP 04, 2005 12:33 PM

plankton said:
A students never win. It's the B+ students that have all the fun.

Our definition of fun is just somewhat different...

Dr_Zoidberg

Raymore, MO

June 2004

SEP 04, 2005 12:40 PM

Website to help determine originality of papers.

karmatsunami

Cambridge, MA

July 2005

SEP 04, 2005 12:56 PM

It's kind of like poetic justice. They are getting sued for plaigarizing a work that they helped other people to plaigarize.

Cheers,
Ché

waldo

I'm lost

June 2004

SEP 04, 2005 02:14 PM

mamet said:
Good for her. Fuck those sites.

+1

Rx

SUICIDEGIRL

Italy

SEP 04, 2005 02:38 PM

i used to sell reports i made in high school.. hehehe

but i never used the reports for myself...

i just made extra reports so i could make money and go rock out at metal shows!

mamet

Charleston, SC

March 2005

SEP 04, 2005 04:30 PM

Rx said:
i used to sell reports i made in high school.. hehehe

but i never used the reports for myself...

i just made extra reports so i could make money and go rock out at metal shows!

I feel like shit for it now, but once during my freshman year of college a friend who went to another school paid me to write one of his papers. He dropped out of school after his first semester and makes more money per year than I'll probably ever make. *sigh*

dingoes8

Milwaukee, WI

March 2004

SEP 04, 2005 09:21 PM

mamet said:

Rx said:
i used to sell reports i made in high school.. hehehe

but i never used the reports for myself...

i just made extra reports so i could make money and go rock out at metal shows!

I feel like shit for it now, but once during my freshman year of college a friend who went to another school paid me to write one of his papers. He dropped out of school after his first semester and makes more money per year than I'll probably ever make. *sigh*

You guys got paid? I wrote so many papers for my friend. For free. Because I was secretly in love with her.

Helly

Australia

December 2004

SEP 05, 2005 05:29 AM

I hope they get rightly fucked for stealing someone elses intellectual property