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Lindsey Weeramuni

Manager of Intellectual Property Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bio

Lindsey Weeramuni is the Manager of Intellectual Property for MIT's Office of Digital Learning, overseeing and executing copyright policy for MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content and available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity, accessible with no registration required (http://ocw.mit.edu/). MITx creates open online courses (MOOCs) that are offered to learners worldwide on the edX platform (https://www.edx.org/school/mitx). Weeramuni was the project director for the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare (http://www.cmsimpact.org/ocw), a document produced by a committee of practitioners of OpenCourseWare in the U.S.