copyright incidents on the nets

A somewhat tangential question related to this discussion involves the problem of transmitting student writing over the net. Some nets have been used to distribute suspected plagiarized papers, in the hopes that other scholars will recognize the plagiarized material and save the professor time searching for them in the library.

Some people have asserted that the students papers are not "intellectual property," raising some interesting questions about what they are asking their students to produce. Another question that's been raised is that of "waiver" or "warning." In other words, can the student be asked to waive his/her right to object to the distribution of his papers on the list?

I've not been on this list long so don't know if we've discussed this in the past, but I'd be interested in hearing some different approaches to these problems.

kathy temple
temple[_at_]guvax.georgetown.edu Received on Wed Dec 14 1994 - 14:43:29 GMT