Excelsior's copyright victory.OUR WEB CULTURE IS BUILT UPON an informal code of ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
An edict can be distinguished from a public proclamation in that an edict puts a new statute into effect whereas a public proclamation is no more than a declaration of a law applies. But, as Excelsior College Excelsior College, a member of the University of the State of New York, is a private college in Albany, New York offering associate, bachelors and masters degree programs in Business, Technology, Liberal Arts, Health Sciences, and Nursing. (N.Y.) now knows, not everyone follows this code. After battling a three-year copyright lawsuit against Professional Development Systems School of Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , a California-based educational corporation, and its owner Charles M. Frye, Excelsior has come out on top. The jury found the defendants guilty of infringing copyrighted questions and answers on several of Excelsior's credit-bearing nursing exams and content guides and awarded the College $7.8 million in reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to . Despite the positive outcome for Excelsior, there are still unanswered questions. It's still unclear exactly how Frye gained access to the information, though it is known that he had tutored Excelsior students. Frye did admit that his business was almost exclusively based around Excelsior's program, says Bill Stewart There have been different notable people named Bill Stewart:
"We never expected this to happen," says Stewart. "We had all of the standard security procedures in place and we took all of the right precautions. But you can't prevent somebody from remembering information and sharing it." Now, the question is: How will Excelsior and other online institutions protect their course content and trade secrets? Stewart is still a believer in the honor code. "We have a stringent academic honesty policy. If we find that people have violated this policy by cheating or stealing exam questions, we will take action," he says. Excelsior's case serves as an important example for online IHEs and other institutions that publish proprietary content on the web. Perhaps it will also serve as a deterrent for would-be infringers, Stewart says. "They now know that if they're caught, they put themselves in jeopardy of a significant penalty." |
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