Study 24-7 pays student notetakers for their services, provides the notes on the Web for free and makes its profit through advertising. It seems to be the position of UCLA and its professors that instructors have intellectual property rights to their own spoken words and that no one may, in making the notes available to others in any form, profit from that endeavor. It is appalling to consider that an institution which supposedly values the freedom to expand knowledge through learning would feel so threatened by anyone interpreting and publicizing the knowledge that they feel they have gained. Professors impart what they know. Students learn what they can and notetaking services allow students to share their knowledge with others.
Many professors seem to have short memories.
Not so long ago, they were students and the knowledge they now possess was imparted to them from others. That is the nature of teaching, and to suppose that what they have to say is so secretive and special that it must be protected from notetaking interpretations is downright ludicrous. I propose that the real issue for the professors and the university is that they are experiencing some competition for the almighty dollar. Now, there is some good old-fashioned American competition, and the university doesn't like it. In pursuing this monopoly, one can only pray that the university fails.