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To engage with the complex world of academic integrity, an institution will require a veritable arsenal of cumulative strategies. Academic file-sharing is “…the transfer and trading of lecture materials, notes, assessment tasks, answers, and responses with others, including Internet-based sites, for a fee, for free, or to barter” (Rogerson & Basanta, Handbook of academic integrity. Springer, 2016, p. 274). Academic file-sharing can take place on the same platforms as contract cheating, yet there are major differences between these two behaviours. Copyright ownership is a factor that effects the ease of having files removed from these sites, and varies among institutions. By framing academic file-sharing as both a copyright issue and an academic integrity violation, academic misconduct could be reduced, and possibly set a precedent for other colleges and universities to leverage copyright ownership.
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Seeland, J., Eaton, S.E., Stoesz, B.M. (2022). Leveraging College Copyright Ownership Against File-Sharing and Contract Cheating Websites. In: Eaton, S.E., Curtis, G.J., Stoesz, B.M., Clare, J., Rundle, K., Seeland, J. (eds) Contract Cheating in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12680-2_5
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