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"White said that UD faculty have three basic options for dealing with such situations: Faculty members can contact the UD General Counsel's Office and request assistance in sending a "take-down notice" to the offending website; Faculty members can send a take-down notice on their own; or Faculty members can include in their syllabi a notice to the effect that their lectures and other course materials are copyright protected and that students are not authorized to commercialize the notes they take down in class, the test questions they answer or any other course related materials. Students violating this rule would be subject to discipline under the code of conduct in UD's Student Guide to University Policies."

"Let's look at some of the current e-textbook providers and how they compare on key points."

"CourseHero.com, a Web site that allows students to post exam questions and homework solutions, has raised legal issues for professors and faculty, causing the university's lawyer to take action against the potential misuse of copyrighted intellectual property."