Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web
Intellectual Property Rights ... and Wrongs

Review each of the following case studies. Each one ends with several questions that you should initially answer for yourself:

1. The Case of the New England Vacation
2. The Case of the Twin Cities Tourist
3. The Case of the Conscientious Objector
4. The Case of the Physics Textbook Supplements
5. The Case of the University of Wisdom
6. The Case of the NumThumbs Game

Next, team up with one to three other course participants. Among yourselves, compare your answers for each scenario. Attempt to resolve any discrepancies among your answers. One member of your group should post your final answers to the course list. Be sure that your post identifies all who participated in your discussion.

(As individuals, you are then welcome to read and comment on the posts from other groups, but please make it clear in your subject line that your message is a response, not your initial statement. Your instructor will be scanning the mail initially to identify and correct the original group reactions ... which is why she wants you to make it easy for her to distinguish those from follow-up comments.)

For those case studies where you've all got it right, your discussion leader will let you know. If interesting discrepancies remain across different groups, she will post additional questions to the list, until it looks like the majority of you have got the essence of each of the scenarios.