Reply #6: It depends upon whether they're libeled or defamed. [View All]

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There's no word on what 'targeted' actually means.

Does it mean that somebody keeps a file on them? No problem; I have files on my professors--class notes, my reactions to their lectures, stuff they've handed out, and in a couple of cases things they've done to other students. In student government it was fairly common to have files on faculty: there was an undergrad UCLA faculty guide, saying if they were good or bad, sympathetic or hard nosed.

That the materials are to be forwarded to a lawyer in furtherance of litigation against UCLA or some professor or department?

That they'll be in touch with some CA legislator about what goes on in the lecture halls and seminar rooms? I've known UCLA undergrads to do precisely this, with some professors.

That they'll argue with Carnesale about the limits of academic freedom using these professors' notes as fodder--something espoused wholeheartedly by UCLA faculty, but typically granted with scant measure to many of their students?

Selling copies of the professors' lectures or of their webpages would certainly violate copyright, assuming that they weren't acquired legitimately and in accordance with copyright regs. Giving them wouldn't. Selling the notes that the students take during lectures for such a purpose ... I simply dunno.