RE: Re: Distribution of personal study guide

Associate Dean David Alan Bozak wrote:
> I'd find this a great opportunity for this student and other "interested"
> students to learn about intellectual property and obtaining permissions...

All of this reminds me a bit of this item of interest, recently reported by The New York Times (an excerpt of which I am reproducing below in my own reliance on the fair-use doctrine):

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Conservative Alumnus Pulls Offer to Buy Lecture Tapes By CINDY CHANG
Published: January 24, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/national/24ucla.html

A 24-year-old conservative alumnus who announced earlier this month that he planned to pay students at the University of California, Los Angeles, to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning professors backed down after U.C.L.A. officials informed him on Monday that he would be violating school policy.

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The university sent Mr. Jones a letter last week stating that the taping of lectures for political purposes violated school policy and could be subject to claims of copyright infringement by professors.

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Doug Isenberg
Attorney at Law: http://www.GigaLawFirm.com Publisher, GigaLaw.com: http://www.GigaLaw.com Author, The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law: http://www.GigaLaw.com/guide Received on Fri Jan 27 2006 - 02:35:01 GMT