Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Anger at ‘stolen’ online courses on Udemy - Dave Lee, BBC

Several experts and academics have expressed anger at finding their courses uploaded to the site and offered up for sale, without their permission. Udemy, which raised $65m in investment in June this year, responded by saying it relies on users flagging copyright infringing content and would review its procedures for doing so. Rob Conery discovered that his programming courses had been reposted - but sometimes with identifying information intentionally removed. "Piracy happens," Mr Conery said. "But I've never seen it rewarded so openly… so brazenly. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34952382