You must log in to view your course materials on Electronic Reserve, or blackboard. If your login has expired, you must pay the appropriate student fee to restore access.
You must not allow other students to use your login. Unauthorized persons are not allowed to read this material without paying for access.
You may not keep a copy of this online material when you leave the university. It is not yours, it does not belong to you. You are renting access to it, and that access is limited to the duration you are a student at the university. Printing it out, or copying it to your own computer, would be a copyright violation. Unauthorized copying will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
These course materials are stored in an encrypted format; you must login to read them. Attempting to bypass this access control mechanism for any reason is a federal offense under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act; this includes attempts to copy the material to an unencrypted format, or to access it with non-approved readers such as text-to-speech synthesizers for the blind, or language translation software.
You may not use the materials you learned from to instruct anyone else without permission. The primary source materials you study here are access controlled, password protected and stored in encrypted formats on secure servers. Unauthorized access puts the university at risk of lawsuits for intellectual property violations. This will not be tolerated.
Due to recently passed copyright legislation (the "Sony Bono Act"), copyrights no longer expire, and copyrights are being retroactively extended to remove works from the public domain. All intellectual property is being moved online, where the legal doctrines of "First Sale" and "Fair Use" do not apply. "Business Methods" are now patentable. This may include your style of teaching, or the way the organization you teach for does business. Please file a lesson plan with your institution's lawyer at the start of each school term for intellectual property review.
"Trade secrets" no longer not need to remain secret to be enforceable; if you teach something you did not have permission to know, you may be legally liable for civil damages. You may be asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement to gain access to some educational materials. This may require that any notes you take be kept under lock and key at all times, and be turned in at the end of class for appropriate disposal.
In future, all the necessary payments for copyright, patent, and trade secret licenses may be bundled together into a convenient annual "teaching license" giving you permission to lecture before an approved class of licensed students.
Attempting to teach from material you have not purchasted licenses to (for yourself and each of your students) is a criminal act of piracy, and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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