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Professor sues students that posted exam questions online for “copyright infringement”

Using the system to try and unmask the students.

A university professor has filed a copyright infringement case after finding test questions he had set on a website where students help other students. The purpose of the lawsuit is to unmask the students who posted the questions so that the school can take disciplinary action against them.

In January, a business professor at Chapman University, David Berkovitz found test questions he had set for the previous school year for his business law class on Course Hero, a website where students post academic resources.

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The test questions were posted with calls for help.

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