Re: copyright and student notes taken in class...

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999, Lance Purple <lance.purple[_at_]netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Christopher Gwyn <chris[_at_]icopyright.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999, Shelly Warwick <swarwick[_at_]sprynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if universities should amend their governance provisions
> > > so that students who provide notes for a website or via a website
> > > are subject to disciplinary action
> >
> > how is this intrinsically different from a student sharing
> > (compensated or not) his or her notes with a student who was
> > not able to attend class or who was unable to take notes?
>
> The other students in that class have -paid- the university
> to be allowed to hear those lectures. You, I, and everyone
> else on Earth with WWW access, probably have not.

     following that rationale showing the notes to anyone not enrolled in that class (or even that section of that class if someone else lectured the other section) would be prohibited. that could get complicated. particularly if the notes were such that nothing in the notes themselves demonstrated that they were taken during a particular lecture. after all, facts are not themselves copywriteable -- even if you usually pay to get access to them.

     cheers,
     christopher

Christopher Gwyn
<chris[_at_]icopyright.com> Received on Mon Oct 04 1999 - 15:52:37 GMT