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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: brendan on January 08, 2009, 09:33:48 pm

Title: Court finds Icarus plagiarised 800 UMAT questions and answers from MedEntry
Post by: brendan on January 08, 2009, 09:33:48 pm

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24881153-12332,00.html

Mr Gibson had claimed that he bought the questions on a computer disk from an RMIT sociology student, Minh Van Tran, for $1500 in cash and was unaware they were pirated from MedEntry.

What the...

I think this is the case:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FCA/2008/995.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FCA/2008/1375.html

Title: Re: Court finds Icarus plagiarised 800 UMAT questions and answers from MedEntry
Post by: shinny on January 08, 2009, 09:49:02 pm

Ahah this whole debate. I remember reading through all of it on MedEntry and Icarus' respective sites. Pretty funny really and it was hard to tell who had plagiarised who  (Icarus claimed MedEntry plagiarised them), but I assumed MedEntry was in the right and I guess they were.