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ExamplesAcceptable behavior: While browsing the World Wide Web, you find a table of information and are impressed by the presentation. You view the source data, and make a note of some of the commands the author used to create that display. You use some of the same commands to create a similar table, containing information you want to present via World Wide Web. Acceptable behavior: You create a Web page, and include a link to someone else's Web page. Acceptable behavior: You use a network sharing tool to download MP3 or other audio format music files for which you have obtained permission, or film or television files for which you have obtained permission, and you password-protect those files so no one without authorization can get them from your computer, or you set an upload limit of zero in the application so no one on the Internet can get copies of your files. Acceptable behavior: You are testing beta-release software, and know it could fix a problem a colleague is experiencing. You contact the manufacturer, and get permission to share the upgrade with your colleague, who already has a legally obtained copy of the current production product. Acceptable behavior: You enjoy a song that is on a CD you bought or that you downloaded via a legal service such as iTunes, and you want to use it as a kind of personal theme song on your Princeton web page. You contact the agent of the artist who holds the copyright, and obtain permission to use the song in that fashion, giving proper credits as defined in your agreement with the artist's agent. Violation: You have made an on-line copy of an MP3 or other audio format music file, or film or television show file, which the performer's CD or DVD or other medium you own explicitly says you may do. You have an MP3 or other audio format, or television/film format, network sharing tool empowered, which permits others around the world to upload copies of that file from your storage space, and you have put no protections in place to prevent uploading. Violation: Episodes of a favorite TV show are made Web-available for viewing only via a network streaming site that is authorized by the copyright holder. You like one of the episodes so well that you use a sharing tool to download a copy of the episode from an unauthorized source elsewhere on the Internet. Violation: You are asked by a computer manufacturer to participate in a beta test of a new operating system. You try it and it fixes many known problems. Without asking permission of the manufacturer, you put the software up on your server and post a message to a newsgroup announcing that people may get a copy, free, at that location. Violation: Your department has just added a new staff position. The individual hired into the position has a computer, but not a copy of the word-processing package you and the rest of the office use. The department does not have enough in the budget to buy another copy of the software, so you make a copy of your installation CDs for the new staff member to use. (If you have questions regarding the propriety of such action, contact the OIT Help Desk for guidance.) Violation: You missed seeing a television show you like, so you find a copy on the Internet and download it so you can see it. Violation: You create an electronic copy of a new novel and put it on-line, so you and your friends at other schools or in other places can look at the same text at the same time. Violation: Using the World Wide Web you listen to a sample track of commercially available music, and enjoy it so much that you copy that and the other sample tracks to a writeable CD for use on your personal CD player. Violation: You read the tracks of a CD into your computer, and upload the music to your server space. You make the music world-available, with a note stating that people should buy the CD or buy legal downloads of the music after listening to the sound files. (Unless you have permission from the copyright-holder, you can be sued for damages and made to pay the fees of the attorneys pressing suit, as well as face disciplinary action from the University.) Violation: You bought a DVD of a recent film you like, but the disk was lost in an airport as you traveled. You later download another copy of the film from the Internet to replace the disk you lost. Previous Section  |
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