With the advent of commercial ventures which use student work in ways that students may not have outrightly consented to, the time has come for a change. Previously the argument has been that these internet services are an extension of the implied right to evaluate and share which a student grants to a professor or evaluator when writing a paper. I ask, why doesn’t a student have the right to grant that ability to share and evaluate, but outrightly forbid the use of their intellectual property by any group aiming to make money off of it? Certain Creative Common licenses permit the free sharing of work except in the cases of commercial ventures, so why can’t students do the same thing with their work?

Shouldn’t content owners have a say in how their work is used commercially by other companies?