William W. Fisher III, a professor at Harvard Law School, has been experimenting with ways to split the difference. This spring, Fisher is teaching his first online course, CopyrightX, through edX. But he\u2019s also a casual student of the medium. Fisher\u2019s field is intellectual-property law\u2014he was among those to represent Shepard Fairey and his \u201cHope\u201d poster\u2014and he works a lot on rights in the digital age. I met him one morning in his office, which had a standing desk and an ergonomic keyboard in one corner. At one point, Fisher\u2019s Portuguese water dog, Nica, wandered in. He explained to me that he has reservations about MOOCs.<\/p>\n
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