{"id":1388625,"date":"2022-03-18T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388625"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:59:50","slug":"a-professor-thinks-his-students-cheated-so-hes-suing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-professor-thinks-his-students-cheated-so-hes-suing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"A Professor Thinks His Students Cheated, So He\u2019s Suing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-professor-thinks-his-students-cheated-so-hes-suing-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Cheating-scaled-e1647624420548.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, is going the extra length to find out if his students cheated after he discovered that his midterm and final exams from last year were uploaded to a popular website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Business Law Professor David Berkovitz filed a federal lawsuit against a group of his students, accusing them of copyright infringement, The New York Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/17\/us\/chapman-law-cheating-professor.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>. Berkovitz wants to make the website Course Hero to turn over the names of the students in his class who uploaded his past exams which also contained sample answers, his lawyer Mark Hankin said, according to The Times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf successful, Professor Berkovitz plans to turn over the names to Chapman\u2019s honor board, Mr. Hankin said,\u201d the report states. \u201cBecause Chapman\u2019s business school requires grading on a curve, Professor Berkovitz is worried that students who cheated may have unfairly caused their classmates who played by the rules to receive grades lower down on the curve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Berkovitz came across the uploads of his old exams online in January and surmised that the exams were uploaded and used by some of his students to cheat on this year\u2019s exams. He was mainly concerned that the unnamed group of students he believes used the uploaded material to study for exams are \u201churting their fellow classmates.\u201d Hankin assured that Berkovitz is \u201ccertainly not in this for the money\u201d and also said Berkovitz might not even pursue further legal action as long as he gets the names of the students he believes cheated through the website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCourse Hero, which is not named as a defendant in the suit, said it would comply with a subpoena, which Mr. Hankin said he expected to serve in the next day or two,\u201d The Times reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sean Morris, Course Hero\u2019s vice president of academics commented on the lawsuit, stating, \u201cOur response is always in keeping with the law, so if they produce a subpoena, we will help them with their investigation.\u201d Morris told The Times that Course Hero is a platform that helps students and teachers upload and share documents with each other \u201calmost like a library.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Course Hero allows free access for students to some documents, but to gain more access, users have to pay a $9.95 subscription fee. This isn\u2019t the first time the website has been the center of debate. In 2009, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/10\/06\/course-hero-or-course-villain\">piece<\/a> by Steve Kolowich for Inside Higher Ed asked if Course Hero was helping students steal others\u2019 information and cheat. \u201cSome professors and administrators \u2026 have chafed at the idea of a site that encourages students to take professors\u2019 intellectual output, post it without permission, and then allow a company to sell access to it for profit,\u201d Kolowich wrote, later adding, <\/span>\u201cFor some, the question of whether such a site violates intellectual property protections is secondary; some officials have expressed concerns over whether Course Hero\u2019s efforts to create a community of shared information might actually enable cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>The website, however, claims it \u201cdoes not tolerate copyright infringement, plagiarism, or cheating of any kind.\u201d Course Hero told Berkovitz\u2019s lawyer Hankin that the company would require a court subpoena to reveal the names of students uploading documents to its site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, is going the extra length to find out if his students cheated after he discovered that his midterm and final exams from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}