Nittany Notes (Score 2)

There's a company that's been in business for years in State College called Nittany Notes. They hire students to take notes for $5.00 a class, and sell the notes, by class or semester. They copy the typed up notes on red paper to boot to make it harder to reproduce. Penn State has sued and lost. Professors have sued and lost. The rulings have all come down that notes that the students take are an intrepretation of the professors lecture and therefore remain the intellectual property of the student and they can do what they want with them. It's actually got to the point at Penn State that if a professor really objects to the note-taking-for-profit model, they hand out all the notes at the beginning of the semester and copyright them. The result is the same... students get the notes they want... -- mapman