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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. Leaders in the area by 2.7182 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They've been offering some great math courses too. Try Strang's linear algebra. He is a genius of a teacher. And you can't copyright a matrix.

  2. Re:free as in keg party? by Zackbass · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well if you had RTFA'd you notice the Creative Commons License 2.5 button on the bottom of the page. Many professors and assistants go to great lengths to get permission to post materials they use in courses (I get notices from time to time for permission to post diagrams from our FSAE team), find alternative Free sources, and strip out non-Free material. It usually works out very well since a lot of classes rely almost exclusively on the professor's own material.

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  3. MIT IAP by jaxon6 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The IAP at MIT is a really neat concept. Anybody can take almost any class, and almost anybody can offer a class to teach. One that caught my eye when I worked there (never took one) was a class on 'players'. You know - those among us with the lady charm; how to be one, how to spot one, etc..

    A friend of mine took a welding course during IAP, just because welding random stuff in January is definitely fun in my book.

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