PURPOSE:
The purpose of this document is to establish uniform policies and campus wide procedures that assure campus compliance with all state and federal laws applying to copyrighted material. This policy applies to all copyrighted materials that in anyway use campus-computing resources.
POLICY/PROCEDURES::
No copyrighted material may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without explicit permission from the owner of the material, except as provided by the fair use provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Modification or use of these materials for any purpose that is a violation of copyright and other proprietary rights is prohibited on any web site or on any network that uses campus resources to store or transmit such materials.
The University requires all users of its computing resources to obey all laws governing usage of intellectual property. Illegitimate electronic use of such property includes, but is not limited to:
1. Reproduction of copyrighted materials, trademarks, or other protected material without express written permission from the material's owner.
2. Usage of materials that enjoy protected status under current intellectual property laws in their own publications.
3. Distribution or duplication of copyrighted software without appropriate licensing agreements or use of software in a manner inconsistent with its license.
4. Distribution or reproduction, in any digital form, of copyrighted music, video, or other multimedia content without the express written permission of the material's rightful owner.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Each University College or other Administrative Unit must make reasonable efforts to ensure that its students, faculty, staff, and other individuals associated with it adhere to appropriate software licensing agreements, including those negotiated by individual Administrative Units for the University as a whole. Individual users should be made aware that illegally duplicating or distributing software is a felony in California.
Individual users are responsible to assure that their usage of CSUN computing resources are in compliance with all CSUN policies on copyrighted material.
Incidences of copyright infringement should be submitted to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), who will respond to complaints
of copyright infring ement. Such actions may include removal of account privileges. When necessary, the Chief Information
Officer (CIO) shall determine if further action shall be taken, including legal action and recommendations to the University
for disciplinary action.
REFERENCES:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Chief Information Officer (hilary.baker@csun.edu)
Approved by the President
