Re: copyright incidents on the nets

From: Jim Porter <jporter[_at_]mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 12:39:29 EST

>Some people have asserted that the students papers are not
>"intellectual property," raising some interesting questions about what
>they are asking their students to produce.

Writing textbook publishers seem to think that student writing can be intellectual property. Several I know about require that authors get permission to use excerpts from students' class assignments. (In a book of my own--not a textbook--I was required to get permission to use some student writing.)

---

Jim Porter
Purdue University
jporter[_at_]mace.cc.purdue.edu Received on Thu Dec 15 1994 - 17:43:21 GMT