{"id":629,"date":"2008-04-04T22:59:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T03:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/04\/lecture-copyright\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T06:39:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T11:39:50","slug":"lecture-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/04\/04\/lecture-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a gem from Techdirt<\/a> about a professor that is suing someone for selling notes of his lecture.\u00a0 He is claiming he has a copyright on what he says in class and someone else can’t take his ideas, write them down in outline form and sell them for profit.<\/p>\n

Apparently this is an actual business\u00a0in large campus communities.\u00a0 Einstein Notes<\/a> seems to be all over Florida.\u00a0 They show up in lectures, take notes and then sell those notes to\u00a0students who cannot make it to class.<\/p>\n

The lecturer claims what he says is protected by copyright.\u00a0 I don’t know if that is factual.\u00a0 Nothing is protected by copyright law unless it is fixed<\/a>.\u00a0 Unless the professor is reading his\u00a0lecture word for word from a piece of paper, I doubt his lecture meets the minimal requirement of what it takes to protect a work.<\/p>\n

Let’s suppose he has written down his lecture and is reading it word for word during class.\u00a0 Facts, ideas, systems and methods of operation are not protected by copyright.\u00a0 I have to believe most of the lecture will contain elements of this type and not the instructor’s personal poetry or musical works.<\/p>\n

How many times have you\u00a0witnessed someone using a personal recording device to record a lecture?\u00a0 If writing notes constitutes copyright infringement, recording that same lecture is certainly against the law.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should all\u00a0transfer to MIT.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/web\/courses\/av\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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