California professor suing student for allegedly posting exams online

ORANGE, Calif. – A Southern California college professor is suing a scholar he says tried to cheat on the midterm and closing exams by posting them on-line in hopes of getting the solutions.

David Berkovitz, who teaches at Chapman College’s enterprise college, filed a federal lawsuit final week in opposition to a scholar recognized solely as “John Doe,” the Orange County Register reported.

The go well with 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 go well with famous that the assessments have been distributed with a warning that they have been copyright protected and weren’t to be reproduced.

He later realized 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 legal professional. “If there’s some moral impropriety occurring, we need to cease that as a result of it modifications the grading curve.”

Hankin stated he’ll subpoena the web site to acquire information to establish the coed answerable for posting the exams.

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Course Hero stated it deleted the professor’s assessments and would not tolerate copyright infringement.

Nevertheless, the Register stated 4 essay questions and a few urged solutions from different customers remained on the positioning as of Tuesday.

Chapman professors maintain the copyright to their work and the college is not concerned within the lawsuit, spokeswoman Ceria Valenzuela Metzger advised the paper.