Is it illegal for a student or company to produce class notes and sell them online?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/02/MN11784.DTL

This Oct. 2, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle article begins "University of California officials are warning Internet companies that posting course lecture notes online is illegal and are demanding that they pull them of their Web sites." It goes to explain some of the issues, viewpoints, and commercial interests that are involved.

Questions:

1. Identify the differing interests of the different stakeholders: the professors who deliver the classes, the universities, the students, and the firms that produce and sell the online notes.

2. How is the recording and sale of class notes similar to or different from the illegal sale of recorded theater or musical performances?

3. Explain why you do or do not believe that unauthorized note taking services should be prohibited.

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