Comments on: Lecture Copyright http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/04/04/lecture-copyright/ Effective and Efficient Education Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Schinker http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/04/04/lecture-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-8286 John Schinker Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:13:12 +0000 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2008/04/04/lecture-copyright/#comment-8286 I <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/prof-sues-note.html" rel="nofollow"> read on Wired </a> that he's claiming that, since he writes out notes on an overhead transparency, those notes are fixed in a tangible form. Evidently, the students copy the stuff he writes on the overhead word-for-word and that's what's being sold. Since he's running his own little side business selling his notes (including two books he's written and their accompanying study guides), the Einstein effort is cutting into his profits. Publish or perish. Then make the students buy the books after paying $30 grand a year to hear the you tell them what's in it. Where's that MIT link? I read on Wired that he’s claiming that, since he writes out notes on an overhead transparency, those notes are fixed in a tangible form.

Evidently, the students copy the stuff he writes on the overhead word-for-word and that’s what’s being sold. Since he’s running his own little side business selling his notes (including two books he’s written and their accompanying study guides), the Einstein effort is cutting into his profits.

Publish or perish. Then make the students buy the books after paying $30 grand a year to hear the you tell them what’s in it. Where’s that MIT link?

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