Sales of Class Notes for Slackers Are OK With the LA Times

An earlier post on this blog noted that CSU was trying to use a state law to ban commercial sales of student notes from classes. The notion behind the law is that the class materials are the property of the instructor. Today, the LA Times editorializes against the law. Excerpt:

The law goes too far... If the notes belong to the students who jotted them down, the state has no business interfering with what they do with them — share or sell (assuming they could actually find a buyer). And copyright laws already exist to protect the professor's words from being copied more or less verbatim without permission, or otherwise published without the professor's permission.

Full editorial at http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-notes-20101019,0,633597,print.story