A short version, a long version, and a surprise. The short version: who has precedence, the CC NC clause or the First Sale doctrine? The long version: First, a little background on the First Sale doctrine from Wikipedia (normal caveats…
I suppose if faculty deliberately choose to misunderstand their role and torment students, they’re free to do so. As Wired reports, another faculty member is claiming that notes students take in his class infringe his intellectual property rights. Michael Moulton,…
Via the amazing Peter Suber, some quotes from a story called Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing in the London Times: Chevalier, the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring who also chairs the London-based [Society of…