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A business professor at Chapman University in Orange, California is suing his students who posted prompts from a midterm and final exam from the previous school year online.
According to The Washington Post, business professor David Berkovitz found his work on Course Hero, a website where students share documents from college courses. As he read a call for help on a test, he noticed the questions looked familiar.
"He recognized his very unique fact patterns," Berkovitz's attorney, Marc Hankin told The Washington Post. "He found what he believes to be evidence that one or more students were seeking and receiving help actually during the exams last spring."
Berkovitz is suing the unknown students from the university for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed last week in the U.S. District for the Central District of California and alleges that the responsible students "infringed Berkovitz's exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the Midterm Exam and Final Exam on the Course Hero website without Berkovitz's permission."
However, his goal is not to gouge the students for money. Hankin clarified Berkovitz's real goal is to force Course Hero to reveal who posted the questions and find out if they received help to answer them. He then plans to pass the names to Chapman's honor board for possible disciplinary action.
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