From The Daily Texan (Univerity of Texas at Austin):

A program that the Pick-A-Prof Web site began in early September with a $5-per-lecture charge has been converted to a free service for the University. The administration is working out the kinks so that the University can begin its own podcasting service through the Blackboard Web site.

The article goes on to say that downloads of the podcasts will be “restricted by electronic identification to class members,” and that “integrating the podcasts into Blackboard has been progressing slowly because many professors do not want to surrender intellectual property rights to downloadable files.”

According to the article, the pay-per-podcast model apparently violates university policy prohitibing students from having to pay to download a lecture for a course they’ve already paid to attend.