From some side conversations with MIT administration and faculty, professors are the owners of their course material and can distribute it as they please. MITx

From some side conversations with MIT administration and faculty, professors are the owners of their course material and can distribute it as they please. MITx would be encouraged, with incentives, but a professor would be free to use Udacity, Coursera, etc if they please. This reasoning would match previous MIT-wide initiatives. OCW material was put up at professor initiative with some financial incentive. DSpace, the open source paper repository, is opt-out. If the professor wants to sell his rights to a publisher, who will typically charge others for access, that is completely their choice. Whether this is a legal statute or if it's just that MIT would not sue a professor was not made clear to me.