What an incredibly stupid lawsuit:
The textbook company and the Professor are scared to death that eeeevil students are going to steal their precious knowledge. I assume they also require the students to sign an NDA before attending classes (that’s a joke, I think.)
Here’s a news flash for both of them: If your students can pass your class by buying someone else’s lecture notes online, then you are useless. And you deserve to be circumvented, because you’re really just wasting everyone’s time and money.
Yeah that’s stupid, and fishy. While I might question the resale of student notes (I’d give them away for free), any sort of notes taken on a lecture should be public domain, or at the very least the copyright holder would be the student who actually penned them.
I think this is especially funny in the light of universities who are now publishing entire courses online free of charge.