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Rice University says no to online notes, by Eric M. Law
Rice University has joined a growing group of schools nationwide taking at least some action against Internet businesses that offer class notes online... Rice's Faculty Council met last week to discuss versity.com after hearing of conflicts over such sites on other campuses. The council decided the site does not protect intellectual property and that faculty members have no means of reviewing their notes that are posted. Therefore, note content may not be representative of what happened in lectures. "Our council will recommend to (Rice) President Malcolm Gillis that no commercial use of lecture notes or other course material be allowed," said Rice spokesman Bill Wilson...
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From The State Hornet (Cal. State, Sacramento), April 12, 2000 ...
Notes notes
Your recent article (March 29) on commercial note taking companies was appropriately titled "cash for classroom note-taking" because a major issue in this controversial development concerns nothing more nor less than money, at least on the part of the companies... Contrary to Versity.com's self-presentation of success, the company has been attacked by students and teachers across the country. Many universities have already developed policies against the commercial sale of lecture notes, while many others should and will follow. As students and teachers alike, we deserve better than selling and buying notes. [signed] Mathieu Deflem, Purdue University.
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From the Michigan Daily, April 6, 2000
Versity.com to test new notes program at U. Michigan, by Jodie Kaufman
Communications Prof. Susan Douglas told the company she was not interested in having them post her lecture notes online, but Versity.com still posted her Communications 101 notes. "I post my own important definitions and key concepts on the Web and I think it is important for students to come to lecture," Douglas said. Douglas said she warns students to avoid using the Website because she has found mistakes in the past. "There is nothing I can do to stop it, I warn students to go there at their own peril," Douglas said. "I feel like we (professors) don't have any rights."
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From Entertainment Weekly (campus edition), Spring 2000...
Sour Notes? Uploaded lectures may be the future, but for some profs they're a real downer, by Adam Winer
Generally, it is not a good sign when your brand-new business is denounced on the op-ed page of the The New York Times. But that's the greeting a number of new lecture-note websites --which hire students to upload their class scribblings-- received last September when they began posting from more than 100 colleges... In its editorial, the Times argued the ad-supported sites would undermine higher education. Professors were also up in arms... "It is completely irresponsible," rages Mathieu Deflem, assistant professor of sociology at Purdue. "Just imagine that every 10 minutes I have a break [in class] and say, 'Buy Coca-Cola.'"... "The value of direct student-to-faculty interaction in the classroom is irreplaceable," says John sandbrook, the UCLA assistant provots behind his school's cease-and-desist letter...
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From The Dartmouth, April 5, 2000
Online lecture sites cause angst in academia, by Amit Anand
The main controversy [over notes sites] has not been that students will stop going to class because of the free notes available online --although that has been of concern to many people-- but rather that the notes posted on these sites may have been obtained without permission from the professors... In spite of the recent controversy, both companies are going full steam ahead with their expansion plans... Whether sites like Versity.com, studentU.com and study24-7.com will be successful in the long run is yet to be seen, but no one can doubt their continually-expanding influence on campuses nationwide.
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From the Montana Kaimin, April 4, 2000.....
Commercial notes sites must be curtailed (letter)
Commercial notes companies intrude in the relationship students can and should enjoy with their teachers. They are neither responsible nor qualified to be involved in education and instead rely on the economic benefits of e-commerce. Fortunately, several universities have successfully implemented policies against notes companies. The latest developments in the world of commercial notes businesses, unfortunately, indicate it will not be an easy road, for the invasion of e-commerce in education has in many ways gained ground... (signed) Mathieu Deflem, Assistant professor of sociology, Purdue University.
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From the Stanford Daily, April 3, 2000.....
University should follow Yale's lead on commercial notes (letter)
The recent merger of Stanford's SSE Lecture Notes service with Versity.com ensures approved lecture notes at Stanford only at the expense of a partnership with a commercial business that unashamedly posts unauthorized notes at many other campuses... I find it hard to believe that Stanford students and faculty would want to preserve their educational interests at the expense of those everywhere else where commercial notes businesses continue their invasions. However unfortunate it may be, that is exactly what the SSE-Versity merger represents... (signed) Mathieu Deflem, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University.
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The Stanford Daily, March 29, 2000
Yale forces Versity.com to drop its lecture notes, by Deena Skolnick
Versity.com, a Palo Alto-based lecture-notes company, withdrew notes for classes at Yale University from its Web site at the end of February under pressure from the university. Stanford has not shared Yale's objections to the online notes service. Stanford Student Enterprises' Lecture Notes, Stanford's note-taking service, announced a partnership with Versity.com on Jan. 23...
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From The State Hornet (Cal. State, Sacramento), March 29, 2000
Web site offers cash for classroom note-taking, by Christine Brownell
Floyd Lucureux, professor of computer science, said, "Some students will benefit from the process. But I am afraid that students will become dependent on the notes, and therefore skip more classes than they would otherwise and/or will not bother to take notes themselves. As a student myself, I found that a major amount of learning takes place when you hear a statement and then translate that to a set of notes and record the notes."... Gregg Campbell, professor of history said, "...If a student enrolled for credit in my class, wanted to sell his notes, I do not think I would have any control over his entrepreneurial spirit. It strikes me that this is a larger issue of academic governance"...
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From the College Heights Herald, March 28, 2000
Versity.com getting noticed at Western Kentucky U., by Jed Conklin
John Wilson, a Madisonville freshman said he does not visit the site. "I know you get free lecture notes, but I usually go to class," Wilson said... Education professor Janice Ferguson says that she "wouldn't recommend anybody using it because the middle person may have a different perspective than the teacher."... Then there are the students that hate the site. Sean Murphy, a Louisville freshman, said he despises it... "You think it would go away, the advertisement is everywhere? why do I need to see it more?" Murphy said. "If you want notes, go to class. If you can't make friends, talk to the teacher. It's a waste to go online. I guess people are just lazy."...
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From the Yale Daily News, March 28, 2000
Versity to keep Yale notes offline, by Michael Horn
Versity.com, a website that provides online notes for classes at many colleges nationwide, took all Yale notes down before spring break after the University threatened legal action. Representatives from Versity.com journeyed to Yale yesterday to meet with Yale officials, with the immediate result that the online notes company's services will not continue in any capacity at Yale.
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From the Business Wire, March 27, 2000
Banking Goes to Class: National InterBank and Study24-7 Form Strategic Alliance Bringing Online Banking to College Students
National InterBank (www.nationalinterbank.com) today announced a new strategic partnership with Study24-7.com (www.study24-7.com) that will bring online banking to college students. The new alliance creates Student InterBank, powered by National InterBank. Students who open a new account will have $15 added to their opening balances. The bank will be live in late April and will be accessible through Study24-7's Web site. "We are excited to partner with Study24-7.com," said Ronald C. Hynes, vice president of strategic partnerships, National InterBank. "They have done an exceptional job of building a presence on college campuses across North America, and we look forward to leveraging this presence to bring the benefits of online banking to millions of college students. The college environment is an Internet-friendly market, making online banking a natural fit."
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From the Daily Princetonian, March 27, 2000
Long-standing policy keeps Versity.com off Princeton campus, by Dana Pasternak
Though the Website [of Versity.com] allows users to get notes for about 7,000 classes, it does not offer notes from any Princeton courses. Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan said she believes this lack of demand is the result of specific University regulations that preclude the sale of lecture notes. "The University has a policy that long predated Versity.com," she said. This policy appears in "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" and states, "Students may not engage in the publication or sale of abstracts or transcriptions of the lectures or required reading in any course of instruction in the University."...
When a Versity.com recruitment advertisement appeared in The Daily Princetonian this fall, the administration sent a campus-wide e-mail and placed an advertisement in the 'Prince' to remind students of the University policy, Deignan noted. "We felt it was incumbent on us to go out there and to make people aware of the fact that this was a longstanding policy of the University," she said...
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From the Yale Daily News, March 23, 2000
Versity surveys as meeting approaches, by Louise Story
"[N]egotiations" will occur March 27 in a meeting between Versity's CEO Charles Berman and Yale's General Counsel Dorothy Robinson. But Robinson said that it is inaccurate to call the meeting "negotiations." From the general counsel's standpoint, the meeting is a only a courtesy. Robinson said that she plans to listen but that she knows how she feels about the situation --Yale students should use Yale's online note depot at classes.yale.edu. Robinson added that Versity removed the notes because Yale demanded a removal. Not, as Versity asserted in the e-mail, because Yale asked them to. "This kind of misrepresentation doesn't bode well," she said.
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From the Daily Pennsylvanian, March 22, 2000.....
All About the Benjamins
A recent editorial ("Embracing a new medium," DP, 3/9/00) on commercial notes companies betrays some of the misconceptions on this recent invasion into our educational system.. [I]t is unwise to portray the matter as just a posting of notes on the Internet. The crux of the matter is all about who is in control of the distribution of notes and with what kind of intent. Also, totally obscured by a focus on rights are the many commercial aspects of notes businesses. The notes companies are financed by millions of dollars and are trying to expand and monopolize the market... No wonder that the CEO of one notes company called education a "commercial enterprise."...
Furthermore, company spokesmen have been spreading false information in the press. For instance, I read in an article ("Professors voice concerns over online note firm," DP, 3/6/00) that a representative of Versity.com said that Yale University was the first school to demand that notes be removed from their site. That is simply not true. Princeton, the University of California at Los Angeles and other schools have done so as well... (signed) Mathieu Deflem, [Assistant] Professor of Sociology, Purdue University.
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From the Yale Daily News, March 20, 2000....
Yale leads the fight against notes companies (letter)
Congratulations to the students, professors and administrators at Yale for having the insight and courage to successfully halt the invasion of commercial notes companies! I hope that other colleges and universities will likewise show wisdom and develop appropriate policies. The latest developments in the world of commercial notes businesses, unfortunately, indicate that it will not be easy, for the invasion of e-commerce into education has been carrying on... With all this, it seems clear, the essential question is... whether as teachers and students we are still committed to service oriented learning and teaching, or whether we will become mere buyers and sellers dealing in product. (signed) Mathieu Deflem.
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From the Chicago Tribune, March 19, 2000.....
A New Class of Passing Notes: Internet Postings-For-Pay Unnerve Schools,
by Ted GregorySprouting across the country in the last two years, e-businesses that pay college students for their notes are generating serious concern as well as praise. Critics say the enterprises corrupt classroom learning and violate professors' intellectual-property rights...
"The key is that commercial enterprises are intruding into the world of the classroom," said Mathieu Deflem, assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., a leading critic of the note-taking e-businesses. "The relationship in the classroom is very sensitive," said Deflem, who created a Web site last fall that serves as a clearinghouse of the commercial services (http://www.sla.purdue.edu/people/soc/mdeflem/). "It is upheld only with respect and dignity. Students and teachers should be left alone with that."...
"I don't see anything positive in this," said Daniel Sutherland, a philosophy professor at UIC whose lectures are being chronicled by a student working for Versity.com. Sutherland called the note-takers "carpetbaggers." "I look at this," Sutherland said, while reviewing the student's notes, which he said included a handful of glaring errors, "and they're misrepresenting my words. I'm embarrassed. I don't want to have anything to do with it.
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From the Rice Thresher, March 17, 2000
Faculty Council to Discuss Versity.com, by Olivia Allison
Faculty Council members will soon discuss whether the university should continue to allow students to sell lecture notes to Web sites such as Versity.com, according to council spokesman Bill Wilson... A man dressed as a gorilla and a man in a purple velvet suit distributed flyers about Versity to students in the academic quad during lunch Wednesday. Campus Police Chief Bill Taylor said he was unaware of Versity representatives on campus but that soliciting students in this way is prohibited by the university's policies...
Economics Professor Kevin Hasker was upset when he found out that notes for his ECON 370 course were online and said he was in favor of university action banning students from selling their notes. "I am upset that it allows them to skip lectures without cost," Hasker said. "It seems rather dishonest - they're posting notes as I give them. I am disturbed at the idea that a student can [gain monetary] benefit from a lecture."
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From The Rice Thresher, March 17, 2000 .....
Universities take various actions against notes sites, by Olivia Allison
Several universities have taken action against Versity.com, a Web site that recruits and pays students for lecture notes for university classes, which are posted online. Yale University sent a cease-and-desist letter to Versity Feb. 25 asking them to pull all notes from Yale courses off the site... The University of California at Berkeley also sent a cease-and-desist letter to Versity...
One professor's campaign:
Purdue University Sociology Professor Mathieu Deflem began a personal Web site against these types of Web sites when he learned about Versity in September 1999. "I was kind of offended because it is intruding on my work and on students' work," Deflem said... Deflem also writes letters and opinion pieces for various universities' student papers...Deflem said he is so concerned about this issue because as a student, he would have been attracted by this type of site. "I'm so passionate [about this] because I nearly flunked out and eventually became a professor," Deflem said. "I oppose this because these sites don't encourage students to think, and students get sucked in without understanding the implications."
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From the Brown Daily Herald, March 15, 2000 .....
E-commerce intrudes on higher education
To the Editor: After reading “Class for Sale” (3/13) and some of the responses online, I’d like to add a few words about what these businesses really stand for... While many colleges and universities across the country are developing policies to secure a respectful environment for students and teachers, commercial notes companies have attracted millions of dollars in financing... The CEO of one notes company called education a commercial enterprise. Most recently, several notes companies are expanding and diversifying their businesses by acquiring other college-related enterprises, such as book-selling sites... [T]he question we are faced with is whether as teachers and students we are still committed to service-oriented learning and teaching in an environment of mutual respect and human dignity.
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From the Minnesota Daily, March 15, 2000
Posting lecture notes is theft (letter)
There are three points I would like to make about the lecture-notes controversy. The first is related to the question of community. The American university is a community of scholars and their students. A variety of rules have emerged to protect learning and scholarship in this community... When you enter the university as a professor or student, you are agreeing to play by the rules of the intellectual community. Second, each lecture is a unique product. A lecture might be created from material that is already known, but the structure, pacing and quality is the result of painstaking effort on the part of the instructor... The third point relates to companies and individuals outside the university environment... When students post notes on the Internet, without the permission of the instructor, V[e]rsity.com and others are running a fencing operation for stolen intellectual property... (signed) Matthew Lungerhausen, graduate student, history.
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From the Brown Daily Herald, March 13, 2000
Class For Sale (Staff Editorial)
Several Web sites, such as Versity.com, have made hugely successful businesses of selling class notes for thousands of college courses at schools throughout the country --and college adminstrations, including those at several Ivy League universities, are responding with ire.
Many professors are angry that notes of their class lectures are being published and sold on the Web without their permission and often without their names attached to their work. Others are worried that inaccurate note-takers could spread misinformation and do more harm than good to the buyer. Almost every dissenter questions the academic integrity of these businesses... Online note services... [are] injecting money into a previously unselfish transaction and constructing a business that thrives on academic laziness... The spirit behind Web note services is anti-intellectual and selfish. Students should stick with the beneficent, one-on-one note exchange that has always flourished at universities instead.
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From the Indiana Daily Student, March 10, 2000....
Online notes hurt education system (Letter to the editor), by Mathieu Deflem
Many colleges and universities across the country are now discussing appropriate policies to secure a respectful environment in which students and teachers can fulfill their educational goals. The latest developments in the world of commercial notes businesses, unfortunately, indicate it will not be an easy road, for the invasion of e-commerce in education has in many ways gained ground... Most alarmingly, several notes companies are expanding and diversifying their businesses by acquiring other college-related enterprises, such as book-selling sites, college news sites and many more...
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From the Daily Pennsylvanian, March 10, 2000
Online Notes: Promise and Peril (Letter)
Everyone should embrace the productive exchange of information. And the Internet is going to change the way we learn and teach, just as it is going to change so many other things... I am concerned, however, by the editorial's uncritical embrace of online note services. Just because it is there and just because it uses the Internet does not mean that it is good. There is every reason to be suspicious of the value of a for-profit service that is dependent on convincing students that it is an authoritative source of information, especially when there is no quality control... (signed) Phil Nichols, Professor of Legal Studies.
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From the Daily Spectator, March 09, 2000
Columbia University Professors Object to Online Note Service,
by Jacob KurlanderIn one of several upcoming decisions related to issues of intellectual property, Columbia University will likely soon bar students from selling class notes to websites such as Versity.com, which provides free class notes for over 6,900 college courses nationally. “The Committee on Instruction and I just agreed on a policy that says students may not sell syllabi, exams, or class notes,” Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis said yesterday...
“I don’t know anyone in the University Administration who thinks it’s okay,” Associate General Counsel Beryl Abrams said... Law professor Jane Ginsburg, a co-chair of Columbia’s recently formed Intellectual Property Committee, said the concept of Versity.com rests on shaky legal ground... “The notes would be worthless if they didn’t correspond to what the professor said,” added Ginsburg, a specialist in copyright law. “It’s clearly a copyright infringement, and they probably should be shut down.”...
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From the Columbia Daily Spectator, March 09, 2000
Online Notes Threaten Integrity (Staff Editorial, Columbia Daily Spectator)
Harvard, Princeton, the University of California system, Yale, and now Columbia are responding to worries about the integrity of selling the ideas of the professor and universities... Notes services like Versity.com defeat the free exchange of ideas that should take place in liberal arts education. In the classroom, students and professors engage in a dynamic discussion and questioning; online notes services are without such a reciprocal learning process... At Versity.com, learning and ideas are treated as commodities tradeable for money; the service may be free to users, but the notes are bought, and the site’s advertising indicates the commercial interests of the company. Ideas in the classroom are not commercially motivated, and when we treat them as commodities online, we risk becoming consumers rather than learners...
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From the Harvard Crimson, March 9, 2000....
Dot-Coms in Our Lecture Halls (op-ed), by Mathieu Deflem
Harvard, Princeton, Yale and UCLA are among the courageous universities that have in recent months successfully developed and/or implemented policies against commercial notes companies on the Internet... However, new developments indicate that commercial notes businesses have in many ways gained ground... We are witnessing... the appearance of a rapidly expanding education-commercial complex, guided by monetary concerns and technologically driven to intrude upon education and interfere in the commitment, dedication and respect we enjoy in our work...
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From the Daily Pennsylvanian, March 9, 2000
University of Pennsylvania examines legality of online note firm,
by Dana Klinek...Versity.com has not contacted any of the Penn professors whose notes are online. Penn Deputy General Counsel Wendy White said that the University has a committee currently looking into the site, which has notes posted for 52 Penn courses in a range of departments including Economics, Biology, Philosophy, Political Science and Computer Science. "It is an issue for the University whether Penn wants to permit this activity," White said. "The Provost's office and our office need to take a look at it, and we are."
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From the Montana Kaimin, March 8, 2000
Firm offers notes from University of Montana classes over the Internet,
by Emily PhillipsStudents who don't go to class can get notes off the Internet for free, and students who go to class can get paid for taking notes... But University of Montana Attorney David Aronofsky said online note-taking services, like versity.com, study247.com and studentU.com might put students in uncomfortable--and illegal--situations... The University of Vermont, the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University have all taken action against Internet note services. Aronofsky said he thinks the actions of those universities are just the beginning
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From the Daily Pennsylvanian, March 6, 2000
Professors voice concerns over online note firm, by Jason Bodnar
Standing in front of the almost-full College Hall room 200 last Thursday at the University of Pennsylvania, History Professor Bruce Kuklick addressed his class about what he called a great "moral problem" --Versity.com... Kuklick isn't alone in his concern. Last month, Yale University demanded that Versity.com remove the lecture notes of its professors from its Web site, citing as reasons possible copyright law violations and university rules prohibiting students from participating in commercial enterprises...
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From The Guardian (London), March 7, 2000
Take note - Visiting Yale history professor Bernard Porter explains why he doesn't want to be represented on the net by a student's lecture notes - made for $ 8-$ 12 a go
An academic legal battle is looming in America over the activities of an internet company called Versity.com... But the issue most exercising the Yale authorities is that of 'intellectual property'. That is the ground of their complaint to Versity.com. A related concern is plagiarism. Versity.com specifically instructs its reporters to avoid 'plagiarising a professor or any other source', but how can it be otherwise?... Often the notes are inaccurate... A basic rule we try to impress upon our students is always to cite their sources. Versity.com's practice offends against that. It also disables its customers from checking their sources...
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From the Campus Press (Boulder), Sunday, March 5, 2000.....
Students Missing the Point? Internet class notes may be undermining the very foundation of university structure, by David Hoeper
Over the past year, more than 10 Internet companies have emerged to offer free notes for thousands of lectures nationwide... A primary concern teachers have with these Web sites is that they might encourage students to take the university experience less seriously. "The availability of online notes could mean that students will start to develop a very short-sighted and narrow perspective of education that views teaching as merely getting the notes to pass the exam," said Mathieu Deflem, a CU graduate and outspoken opponent of this practice.
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From the Minnesota Daily, March 6, 2000
Critics of U. Minnesota online-notes ban argue free speech, by Liz Bogut
Some University of Minnesota students are upset that faculty members want to deny them the opportunity to make up to $ 2,000 a semester just by attending class... [O]thers were in agreement with the policy, saying it protects faculty members' rights and helps ensure the information is accurate. "I see things from the University point of view. I don't think students should benefit from professors' knowledge," said Sina Moassesfar, sophomore in the College of Biological Sciences... Moassesfar said the University should sponsor their own Web site where students can post their notes...
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From the Yale Herald, March 2, 2000
Versity Blues, by Justin Chen
This weekend, the Internet-based Versity.com removed all notes for Yale courses from its website. The decision to take down the notes came shortly after Dean Richard Brodhead's, BR '68, GRD '72, announcement last week, emailed to all undergraduates, that Yale's Vice President and General Counsel had made a written demand that Versity.com "cease posting notes from Yale courses on its website and remove any notes that had previously been posted."...
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From the Yale Daily News, March 2, 2000
Truth, profit, and the American way, by Joey Fishkin
Versity.com is a for-profit company that asks students to sell their notes for money... It's a lot easier to talk about supposed economic imperatives and the alleged "free market" than it is to think seriously about the morality of our choices or the choices we want our government to make... If we don't question our faith in the profit motive and the free market now, when we're in college and relatively free from financial obligations, then when are we going to learn to think about it? Now is the time in our lives when we're the most free to search for wisdom and truth...
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From the Harvard Crimson, March 2, 2000
Yale bars Versity.com, by Keramet A. Reiter
Responding to professors' concerns about intellectual property, Yale University has demanded that Versity.com, a commercial website that offers lecture notes, remove all notes for Yale courses from its online repository... "We directed them to take down from the website the notes provided and to not put up any more," said Lawrence J. Haas, Yale's director of public affairs... A series of professor complaints led to Yale's action...
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From the PrimeZone Media Network, March 1, 2000
WhataboutU.com Expands Content and Service Offerings with the Addition of Online Lecture Notes and Premier Study Guide Supplements
WhataboutU.com, a premier global destination Web site servicing undergraduate and graduate students around the world, announced the acquisition of college lecture note leaders TakeNote[r] and TarHeel Notes... As part of the acquisition, the founders of TakeNote[r] and TarHeel Notes have received an undisclosed cash payment and equity stake inWhataboutU.com in exchange for all joint assets... In conjunction with WhataboutU.com, the companies are planning to roll out their lecture notes service domestically and internationally via WhataboutU.com's network of global destination sites.
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From the Minnesota Daily, March 1, 2000
U. Minnesota faculty discuss constitutionality of online policy, by Liz Bogut
Faculty members and legal experts this week continue to debate the merit and feasibility of a proposed University of Minnesota policy restricting the use of online notes. The policy, requiring students to obtain permission from professors before posting notes online, was passed Thursday by a 67-46 University Senate vote... "The policy does not violate free expression but puts a commercial limitation on the use of class notes," said Judith Martin, chairwoman of the senate educational policy committee...
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