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MIT Offering Free Copyright Course Online

Posted by Zonk on from the more-you-know dept.

IANAL writes "MIT is offering Introduction to Copyright Law as a free online course. Interested Slashdotters might find it a good way to challenge their firmly held misconceptions about copyright law as it concerns fair use, Napster, Grokster, the GPL, and P2P filesharing, among other things. There's also an article about the course over on Groklaw."

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  1. Late comers by AntEater · · Score: 4, Funny

    MIT is just getting around to this? The RIAA has been offering an "Introduction to Copyright Law" to select individuals for the past few years.

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    1. Re:Late comers by Stellian · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've already passed this subject.

  2. Re:Yes by geoffspear · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did Microsoft acquire MIT when I wasn't looking?

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  3. Re:LINK UPDATE by ericlondaits · · Score: 2, Funny

    According to the course, rm is a standard unix utility whose abbreviated name stands for "Remove Malware".

    In one of the lessons you're supposed to scan your p2p downloads directory for malware using rm.

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  4. Re:Leaders in the area by The+Empiricist · · Score: 2, Funny

    But the Wachowski brothers were able to copyright The Matrix.