December 13th, 2009

FreeHarvardEducation.com: Does anyone own what universities teach?

By Drake Bennett, Boston Globe

“It is fair to say that a number of these issues aren’t exactly new, but the accessibility of the Web makes us conscious of them in a way that we weren’t before,” says Corynne McSherry, author of the 2001 book “Who Owns Academic Work?” and a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The question of people taking notes in lectures and reselling them is old, but now if you make them available online, the reach is so much broader that people get concerned in a different way.”

Related Issues: Intellectual Property

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