ORANGE, Calif. – A Southern California college professor is suing a scholar he says tried to cheat on the midterm and remaining exams by posting them on-line in hopes of getting the solutions.
David Berkovitz, who teaches at Chapman College’s enterprise faculty, filed a federal lawsuit final week in opposition to a scholar recognized solely as “John Doe,” the Orange County Register reported.
The swimsuit contends the coed dedicated copyright infringement final yr by posting the 2 exams on an education-based document-sharing web site in an effort to acquire solutions to some essay questions. The swimsuit famous that the assessments had been distributed with a warning that they had been copyright protected and weren’t to be reproduced.
He later discovered that parts of the take a look at had been posted on the Course Hero web site.
“It appears to be dishonest and an moral violation of Chapman’s honor code,” stated Marc E. Hankin, Berkowitz’s lawyer. “If there may be some moral impropriety occurring, we wish to cease that as a result of it adjustments the grading curve.”
Hankin stated he’ll subpoena the web site to acquire data to establish the coed chargeable for posting the exams.
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Course Hero stated it deleted the professor’s assessments and does not tolerate copyright infringement.
Nevertheless, the Register stated 4 essay questions and a few advised solutions from different customers remained on the location as of Tuesday.
Chapman professors maintain the copyright to their work and the college is not concerned within the lawsuit, spokeswoman Ceria Valenzuela Metzger instructed the paper.