WTF VCAA? English Language Analysis from the internet

[lateralus]

Can we file an injunction on VCAA to invalidate that section of the exam, for using this article and the COMMENTS (which is plagiarism), I'm sure they got consent from the writer, but not the people making the comments :p

Also can't it be argued that maybe on some off chance a class of students may have inadvertently analyzed it during the year as practice?

Or you can just accept that you got a difficult article to analyse.
If you stuffed it up, bad luck?
What's filing an injunction going to do, make everyone analyse another article? Yeah, nah.

[Lasercookie]

What's filing an injunction going to do, make everyone analyse another article? Yeah, nah.

I don't believe there is any basis to file an injunction anyway. VCAA hasn't plagiarised anything.

[lateralus]

I agree

[chemkid_23]

HAHAHHAHAHA and I thought copying/pasting was not allowed at this level

[abzzzz]

Guys if you read the comments, they've even stolen the dolphin comment. The one under the name 'cleanskin' Although that isn't the guys real user name, so try find it lmao

[ProtonStar]

For some reason I was under the assumption that VCAA wrote the articles for the Language Analysis themselves. Does anybody know if this was the case in previous years?

[chemkid_23]

last year they got the transcript for the speech........

[Lasercookie]

Wait, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/sloppy-copy-in-exam-raises-ire-20111109-1n7eo.html

VCAA didn't get permission from The Age at all apparently.

[cltf]

Can we file an injunction on VCAA to invalidate that section of the exam, for using this article and the COMMENTS (which is plagiarism), I'm sure they got consent from the writer, but not the people making the comments :p

I'm no expert with legal stuff, but by commenting on The Age, you agree to their conditions:

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So, yes, it seems that The Age holds the rights to the comments on their website - since by commenting, you give them that right.

Also can't it be argued that maybe on some off chance a class of students may have inadvertently analyzed it during the year as practice?

The same goes for essay topics, or even trial exams. Just because something on the exam is similar to a trial exam (you'd probably notice this a lot in maths/science exams particularly), doesn't mean that the student has an unfair advantage. It'd be more like the student has studied hard and is prepared for all possible situations that could come up on the exam.

edit: btw, I didn't quote the entire conditions page in this post - there's more on there.

So i was right

[Lasercookie]

So i was right

Seems so.

Note to self: Don't trust VCAA