Cynthia Hates Writing Term Papers and Reports So When She

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Cynthia hates writing term papers and reports so when she receives an assignment to write a paper for her law class,she calls her friend Stephanie and agrees to pay Stephanie to write the paper for her.Stephanie,instead of writing the paper,copies a paper from a small remote law journal that publishes faculty written papers from throughout the world on-line.When the plagiarism is discovered,an infringement claim is brought.Cynthia is guilty of:

A) nothing because Stephanie infringed on the author's/publisher's copyright, not her.
B) vicarious infringement.
C) indirect/contributory infringement.
D) nothing because once a work is published on-line, the fair use doctrine permits unlimited use of the work without attribution