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iPods Valuable in the College Classroom?

Posted by timothy on from the pencils-considered-dangerous dept.

Infonaut writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article called When iPod goes collegiate, examining the iPods for students program at Duke University. It seems that while many students and professors find them valuable for classwork, this is America, so questions about intellectual property rear their ugly head: "Do they have permission from the person who wrote the lectures to share it?" asks one IP attorney, referring to lectures recorded on iPods."

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  1. This argument... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    could be applied to those cheesy handheld recorders that have been in classrooms for eons. People are just jumping on this because it's IPOD. Nothing to see here...

  2. Oh, please! by j_cavera · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From TFA: "Do they have permission from the person who wrote the lectures to share it..."

    Why would this be any different than taping a lecture and passing the tape around to those who didn't go to the class. Okay, so you can e-mail or post to a website instead of pass physical media. But this is nothing (conceptually) different than posting class notes on-line.

    Oh, and FP.

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  3. iPod vs. tape recorders by snuf23 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Do they have permission from the person who wrote the lectures to share it?" asks one IP attorney, referring to lectures recorded on iPods

    Doesn't this apply just as well to ANY recordable media? Is it so hard to share something recorded on tape?
    Record on tape, rip to mp3 and upload to illegalcollegelecturetorrents.com.
    I really, really hate when IP lawyers get all busted out of shape by something like an iPod when audio recording has been around in classrooms for ages.
    Maybe it's because now they will be able to make high quality digital versions of the lectures that won't degrade with repeated copying! Oh no!

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