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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. Re:/.'d already? by bassgoonist · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-a nd-Computer-Science/6-912January--IAP--2006/Course Home/

    bad url perhaps...

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  2. Actual Link by MLopat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the actual link:
    Course 6.912

  3. Re:Late comers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The RIAA course is not free.

  4. Keith Winstein by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 2, Informative

    The course was taught by Keith Winstein, the same guy who as senior editor of The Tech interviewed Jack Valenti and showed him his DeCSS Perl script.

  5. why is this news? everyone does it by sentientbrendan · · Score: 2, Informative

    A number of good universities offer much of their computer science curriculum online, usually just in the form of uploading course notes, or letting the public have access to their class websites. MIT notably has the opencourseware.

    Realistically all these online classes do is let you see what sort of reading you'd need to do for the actual classes. Aside from that they give you access to slides which may or may not be more enlightening than the book. I've yet to see a class that's uploaded videotaped lectures.

    UW's (quite notable) computer science program has every year's class website online, and from what I've seen they generally have more material than MIT's online stuff...