Re: Legality of free CBT videos

ActionNotMotion@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am still relatively young and have done some interesting work on some
MS systems. I have taught myself most of what I know; however, much of
that has been in regard to the demand of my current task, and because
the material is many times dealt with haphazardly, I forget a great
deal of it. I want to retrain myself according to a more structured
format - the approach that has worked for other aspects of my life - I
guess that's just my character inclination.

Anyway, practice is the number one way of learning, and I want to do
lots of it. For myself, for further revision, and for others I would
like to create lots of high quality free CBT videos of different IT
taks, which I will offer for free on my website.

I would just like to inquire into the legality of doing this. There
are a lot of training vendors which offer really expensive products.
http://www.trainsignal.com/ - is actually a pretty cheap one, but
it is the example I am most acquainted with.

There are the obvious, extremely more numerous, websites that offer
text/graphic (not video) versions on different Microsoft topics.

As I intend to distribute my material for free - considering the
example of so many training sites, and how-to blogs, is there anything
wrong with doing this? I just don't want to get blasted for
sacrificing to do something that might benefit others as well.

Some of the topics I intend to cover in detail include, Active
Directory, DNS, Group Policy, ISA, Exchange, SQL Server, .NET, and
others when I get to them.

Thanks



As long as you make sure that you're not plagarizing someone else's work, you'll be fine. If you do use material garnered from some else's material, whether book, web site, usenet post, etc., make sure that you get the author's written permission to reproduce and distribute his/her material.


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