--- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:15:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>, Dave Farber <daveat_private> Subject: UC Davis Warning to Students about P2P/DMCA... (no email address retained if posted/forwarded, please) This seems to be the start of a UC-wide effort... It's even backed up with an educational website "featuring a wide range of information related to the use of copyrighted and public domain materials by individuals and educational institutions." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:19:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Provost Hinshaw <@ucdavis.edu> To: "UC Davis Staff and Students":; Subject: File-Sharing and Copyright Infringement X-Approved-BY: Jack Farrell <jfarrellat_private> X-Approved-BY: Stan Nosek <senosekat_private> UC DAVIS: OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR OFFICE OF THE PROVOST May 20, 2003 File-Sharing and Copyright Infringement A Communication to the Campus Community We are alerting the campus community -- students, faculty and staff -- to the personal risks involved with illegal file-sharing. It is important that you understand these risks not only because of the possibility of disciplinary action, but also to protect against criminal prosecution and the initiation of civil litigation by copyright holders. We would like you to be very aware that initiation of legal action by copyright holders is becoming more of a reality every day. Though trading of copyrighted music, movies, games and software over the Internet has become commonplace using file-sharing programs such as KaZaa or Morpheus, it is often not legal to do so. Most material is copyrighted, and obtaining or offering such material without appropriate permission is a violation of US copyright law and may be punishable with civil and criminal penalties including prison time and money damages. When copyright holders resort to legal actions, there is little the University will be able to do to protect copyright infringers. Some believe that "recreational file-sharing" is unlikely to be noticed. This is not the case. The reality is that copyright holders are significantly intensifying enforcement using automated scanning software to identify infringements, no matter how small. The Recording Industry of America Association on April 4, 2003 filed suit against four students at three universities for copyright infringement. Settlements ranged from $12,000 to $17,000. As the Internet Service Provider to the campus community, UC Davis receives dozens of infringement claims every month. In compliance with the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act and University of California Guidelines for Compliance with Online Service Provider Provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://www.ucop.edu/irc/policy/dmcaguide.html), UC Davis expeditiously takes action when notified of infringing sites located on the campus network. All of these incidents are referred to the appropriate campus officials and appropriate disciplinary actions are levied against those who are downloading or serving copyrighted materials without appropriate permission. Of course, there are legitimate applications of file-sharing software and networks, and research on such peer-to-peer applications is expanding rapidly in the academic community. We will ensure that such inquiry remains unimpeded and balance all needs fundamental to our institution. To assist in this awareness effort, the University of California is developing a Web site featuring a wide range of information related to the use of copyrighted and public domain materials by individuals and educational institutions. That site will be linked from the UC Davis main page (http://www.ucdavis.edu/) in the next few weeks. In the meantime, please submit any questions you might have to copyrightat_private Virginia Hinshaw Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Stan Nosek Vice Chancellor, Administration John Bruno Vice Provost, Information and Educational Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Lorenzo Hall "SCO is alleging that IBM misappropriated from SCO technologies which do not appear in SCO's own product." Eric Raymond and Rob Landley http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html#id2788930 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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