To report copyright infringements involving Princeton University information technology resources or services, please notify:

Rita Seplowitz Saltz
Princeton University
87 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08544

E-mail: rita@Princeton.EDU
Phone: (609) 258-6066
Fax: (609) 258-3943

Ms. Saltz, Princeton University Office of  Information Technology, is acting in conjunction with Princeton University Office of the General Counsel as the agent designated under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, P.L. 105-304, to respond to reports alleging copyright infringements on Princeton University Web site locations.

Members of the University community who engage in any activity that infringes copyright-protected materials may be subject to disciplinary action. Under circumstances involving repeated instances of infringement through the use of the University's computing network, such disciplinary action may include the termination or suspension of network  privileges. 

Information that must be provided in complaints

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act specifies that all infringement claims must be in writing (either electronic mail or paper letter) and must include the following elements:

1. a physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the infringed work;
3. identification of the infringed material;
4. contact information for the complainant, e.g. address, telephone number, electronic mail address;
5. a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner or the law; and
6. a statement that the information contained in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

For more information

For more information on United States Copyright Laws, see: The US Copyright Office

For further information on instructional use of copyrighted materials at Princeton, see: Guidelines for Instructional Use of Copyrighted Electronic and Multimedia Materials