Do Students Own Rights to Homework, Notes?


The LA Times poses an interesting question in today’s paper: “Who controls the intellectual property of notes taken during class?” A recent California State University business graduate’s new venture, a website hawking old notes and homework, sparked the debate after university officials sent the alum a cease and desist letter. Apparently, there’s a provision in the state’s educational code that prohibits students from selling their course work. In an interesting rebuttal, the young man at the center of the fracas is arguing that students own the rights to any material they produce.

Note Utopia is the website that started it all.

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