Business Law -
Several students from a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, and another in Tucson, Arizona, filed suit against iParadigms for copyright infringement. iParadigms is the company that owns and operates Turnitin, a software program that allows educational institutions to check student term papers against previous studentsâ papers to detect plagiarism. The students wanted their papers removed from Turnitin because no contract was ever formed to allow their papers to be posted to Turnitin, that there was duress involved when they clicked to submit their papers because they had no choice but to post them in order to turn in their papers, and that they were minors and could not make valid contracts.
Are the students correct? Or was there a valid contract?
Business Law -
Several students from a high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, and another in Tucson, Arizona, filed suit against iParadigms for copyright infringement. iParadigms is the company that owns and operates Turnitin, a software program that allows educational institutions to check student term papers against previous studentsâ papers to detect plagiarism. The students wanted their papers removed from Turnitin because no contract was ever formed to allow their papers to be posted to Turnitin, that there was duress involved when they clicked to submit their papers because they had no choice but to post them in order to turn in their papers, and that they were minors and could not make valid contracts.
Are the students correct? Or was there a valid contract?
