@ #42,

Thanks James, please see my comments #20 and #24 as well

@Kyle, #36, re: your last question:

Of course you wouldn't care, but if you sold all of your rights in your lecture materials to a corporation, would that corporation care? [see my comments #20 & #24 for context]

As a continuation of my prior comment (#20), the professor is *not* a party to the lawsuit. He assigned his rights to Faulkner and Faulkner is bringing the suit. All claims for relief are
directed to remunerate Faulkner. This is not about education, this is about MONEY. Copyright is a monopoly, and the easiest profits to rake in are government-backed monopoly profits.

The bully here isn't the professor. It's Faulker Press, the for profit educational media corporation that brought the lawsuit. Faulkner has to take the stance that professors have strong rights in their lectures so that they can bargain with professors and exclude competitor corporations who bargain with students for their independently authored notes.