Purpose: This policy defines ĢƵAPP University’s responsibility in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Policy: This serves as ĢƵAPP University’s commitment to cooperate with the RIAA and/or its constituents and abide by the conditions set forth by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to ensure its liability limitation.
Procedure: ĢƵAPP, upon notification by the RIAA and/or its constituents, is obligated to terminate network access for anyone on the campus network that is found to repeatedly infringe on national copyright laws, or be held liable for damages. This serves as an announcement of ĢƵAPP’s commitment to cooperate with the RIAA and/or its constituents and abide by the conditions set forth by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to ensure its liability limitation. If ĢƵAPP University network administration is notified by RIAA and/or its constituents that a user of ĢƵAPP’s network is found to repeatedly infringe upon copyright laws or provides a means of transmitting copyrighted works among a wide user base, ĢƵAPP University has the obligation to terminate that user’s network access until the administration is assured the infringements have ceased as stated below in Title II of the DMCA of 1998.
Applies to: All members of the ĢƵAPP University community
Definitions: RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998
Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act discusses the limitation of liability of online service providers should one of their end users violate a portion of the Copyright Act. These liability limitations remove the burden of guilt from the service provider, ĢƵAPP University, and place it on the offenders. ĢƵAPP falls under the DMCA’s strict definition of “service provider” by providing a means of digital online communication to users and is eligible for liability limitations after meeting two conditions:
Adopting and reasonably implementing a policy of terminating in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of subscribers who are repeat infringers.
Accommodating and not interfering with “standard technical measures,” which are defined as measures that copyright owners use to identify or protect copyrighted works that are developed with the broad consensus of copyright owners and do not impose substantial burdens on service providers.
