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University prof says students can't sell notes from his classes because it violates his copyright

April 4, 2008 3:53pm

I found an article on this suit printed in Wednesday's copy of UF's student paper, the Alligator...
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/04/02/news/local/080402_einsteins.txt

from here, it looks the the suit is being pursued by the text's publisher, not no much from the professor himself.

University prof says students can't sell notes from his classes because it violates his copyright

April 4, 2008 3:52pm

I found an article on this suit printed in Wednesday's copy of UF's student paper, the Alligator...
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/04/02/news/local/080402_einsteins.txt

from here, it looks the the suit is being pursued by the text's publisher, not no much from the professor himself.

University prof says students can't sell notes from his classes because it violates his copyright

April 4, 2008 3:27pm

I am a student at the University of Florida, it has been mentioned before that these notes for sale are for entry level classes, and that is true. Entry level business classes actually, and the lectures are recorded, anybody who is signed up for a UF Business class can stream the lecture as it is broadcast or download and watch them later, this is largely due to the fact that there are thousands of students in these classes per semester so for seating and organization issues they seem to work quite well. I took one of these classes for a general ed requirement and bought the notes as well (they cost about 1/3 as much as buying a USED version of the text) from what I understand, this particular professor wrote the text he teaches from, and makes a fair deal of royalties on it.
(Also, I apologize on behalf of my university that this and "don't taze me bro" are probably all you've heard about us this past year... Tim Tebow too probably, but thats o.k.)

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