According to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, "there is a general rule prohibiting Harvard students from selling lecture notes."
Janet A. Cardinell, the director of campus relations at Versity.com, said the Yale controversy would help publicize the controversial company.
"I think its going to increase the dialogue," she said.
She said she felt that professors' concerns are legitimate, particularly if they plan to use their lectures to write textbooks, for instance.
"It's a new, disruptive technology like MP3s," she said. "It is causing people to re-think knowledge."
Cardinell said that more than 17 percent of Yale's student body had been using the Versity.com site even though the site only covered 37 of Yale's classes.
She said that Versity.com CEO Chuck Berman had requested a meeting with Yale's dean, but that she did not expect any discussions to take place for at least two weeks.
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