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05 Apr 08

Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.com

University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he's headed to court to prove it.

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53 lecture copyright notes

Those notes are illegal, Faulkner and Moulton contend, since they are derivative works of the professor's copyrighted lectures.

If successful, the suit
(.pdf) could put an end to a lucrative, but ethically murky businesses
that have grown up around large universities to profit from students
who don't always want to go to the classes they are paying for.

The suit could also have ramifications for more longstanding
businesses such as Cliffs Notes, which summarize copyrighted novels.