(14 Aug 2024) Turnitin announced they were ending private plans for PlagScan, a plagiarism detection service they acquired in 2021. With that imminent closure, individuals can only access Turnitin’s services through iThenticate, which costs $125 per search, or a third-party partner like Scribbr.
However, Christian Moriarty, an ethics and law professor at St. Petersburg College, asked on X (formerly Twitter) in response to my previous article, “I wonder if part of the argument is that it SHOULDN’T be too accessible to individual users, and it’s an ethics choice?”
In short, how accessible should these services be to individuals and small companies? The answer, of course, is complicated.
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