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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. Yes by El+Lobo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whatever MS does will be bad in the eyes of most slashsu..dotters, so... BTW, this is a great introduction to how (american, but much things can be applied to almost any country) copyright laws. Copyright laws (in software in particular) is a jungle and even lawyers have a hard time understanding some particularities, especially because a perfectly legal thing in the eyes of some lawyers can be interpreted wrong by other *lawyers* as well. But as a layman, this is a very good reading. And yes, it's MS, and what?

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