Claude Almansi wrote:

> Hi All
>
> One odd thing about this article: podcasting gets mentioned only once,
> between bracket. Interesting queries about copyright issues raised by
> students' ability to record a course and put it on the Net.

Yeah, it's a definite copyright issue by the present definition of
copyright... Of course, in the context of an institution of education,
I'd have serious problems with a professor claiming that there is a
copyright issue. If that's the case, the students have a license because
they paid tuition - but since they don't pay tuition to the professor,
the educational institution would have to have a copyright agreement
with the professor. Otherwise, the professor seems to be talking into
the wind. Of course, I am not a lawyer... but it seems to me that this
is just an exercise in futility (again) of adapting a draconian legal
system (again) based on print publication to a system that used to be
open....

I guess college students could be sued, why not? The RIAA can go after
kids, so the precedent has been set. If something strikes you as
intuitively wrong about this whole thing, you're not alone.

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