I finally caught one of the student essay sites, eCheat.com, red-handed. Compare: Mark Twain and American Anti-Imperialism, uploaded by anoncollegestudent on Nov 29, 2004 http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=25783 with An American Anti-Imperialist: Mark Twain on the Philippine-American War, by Jim Zwick, published in Filipinas Magazine (Sept. 1992) http://www.historyillustrated.com/ai/twain/amermtph.html I have seen brief snippets from a number of my essays about Mark Twain advertised at those sites for years but this is the first time one of them has had the full text out from behind their subscription firewalls. If any of your students have handed that in as their work, please let me know what grade I got. :-) Right after catching them red-handed, I also caught the State of New Jersey red-handed: HSPA Language Arts Tutorial Cluster 5: Reading Persuasive Text http://www.state.nj.us/education/njpep/assessment/hspa/hspa_la/modul e_5/reading_persuasive_b.htm (sorry, you'll probably have to cut and paste that URL) This is apparently widely distributed to teachers and students throughout the state's school system, and is available for worldwide access at its site. I also found it reprinted at an individual teacher's site at a New Jersey school. Does the State of New Jersey have some kind of special dispensation that allows it to appropriate intellectual property, or should I be paid for this like I would be if it was included in a textbook or course pack? It has been depressing checking Google to see if my new site is showing up there. Some pages do, but so far they list more copyright violations than pages from my site. Jim Zwick