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Court: Turnitin does not violate student copyrights by scanning homework
The judge presiding over the case ruled that since iParadigms does not republish the stories and "makes no use of any work's particular expressive or creative content beyond the limited use of comparison with other works." Therefore, the judge decided that the whole thing falls under "fair use." There's also the fact that the students kind of, sort of give permission for their papers to be scanned. Really what happens it that schools and teachers decide to use the system and students who don't want to feed their papers into a big computer can refuse to turn them in and take an F. Not really much of a choice, is it?
[via Techdirt]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
