Who knew online tests would lead to such problems? Besides everyone, I mean.
NBC News reports:
California college professor sues students after midterm and final exams are posted onlineAn assistant professor at Chapman University filed a federal lawsuit accusing at least one student of posting parts of his midterm and final exams online.David A. Berkovitz, who teaches business at Chapman, a private university in Orange, California, accused five unnamed defendants of copyright infringement and wants the material removed from Course Hero, an education website that provides study material for students.”Defendants infringed Berkovitz’s exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the Midterm Exam and Final Exam on the Course Hero Website without Berkovitz’s permission,” the lawsuit says.”Defendants knew or should have known that their acts constituted Copyright Infringement,” it says.The suit, filed March 10 in U.S. District Court for Central California, does not identify any of the defendants.Berkovitz said in the lawsuit that his midterm and final exams, which were administered online because of the coronavirus pandemic, can be accessed only by students currently in the class.He was able to file the copyright infringement lawsuit after he obtained copyright registrations for the material he uses in his tests.
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