Passing Grades takes copyright infringement very seriously. It is prohibited within the platform and any vender found to entertain copyrighted works is immediately banned from the site and the copyrighted work is taken down after being reported and an investigation carried out. Therefore, we encourage all vendors to refrain from uploading copyrighted materials on the platform.
What is copyright infringement?
Copyright infringement entails the use, reproduction or distribution of unauthorized materials. When someone produces their work, it is our duty to respect their input and only use their materials with permission.
Passing Grades and Copyright infringement
Creating an original piece of work which can be a book or a study material, the intention is to be the sole owner and not get copied and used by someone else in their advantage without your permission. It is for this reason that copyright laws and regulations exist. Since passing grades is a platform that allows students to create study materials and sell them at a small fee, it is not expected for students to copy other people’s works and sell them at our platform.
How you can create a study material without going against copyright laws
It is possible to create study materials such as summaries and notes without copyright infringement. First, there are several things that are not protected by copyright laws. One of this things is ideas or theories underlying a particular work. Copyright laws only protect original work but the ideas under the work can be used by anyone as long as the individual refrains from using the exact terms and concepts. Moreover, data and facts are public properties and thus are not subject to copyright infringement. Therefore, as a student, when creating study materials, you are free to use facts and data even though they might be used by another author. However, passing grades considers the type of data and facts used in creating the study materials to ascertain whether the facts and data were directly copied thus being subject to copyright infringement.
How to report copyright infringement to passing grades
In the case whereby you go through our website and you find a material that violates copyright laws, feel free to immediately send us a message and we will respond immediately. You can report by sending as an email.
It is important to respect other people’s or organizations’ work and avoid plagiarizing their information. An original and authentic information is always encouraged within passing grades platform. Read also about our privacy policy.