December 14, 2001

Professors' Quest for Rights to Lectures Could Backfire, Law Student Warns

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Professors who are fighting to claim copyright for their lectures and other course materials online could be unintentionally chipping away at the notion of academic freedom, says Corynne McSherry, a third-year student at Stanford Law School.

Ms. McSherry takes a thoughtful look at recent struggles over control of intellectual property on college campuses in a new book, Who Owns Academic Work: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).

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