IV. Student Organizations, Staff and Faculty Publications
Appendix A: QCC Website Publications
Appendix C: Copyright Violations
The Quinsigamond Community College (“QCC”) Web Site is an official resource
of the College. The computing and
network resources are provided to students, faculty and staff for educational
purposes and to carry out the legitimate business of the College.
The official QCC Web Site provides both a source of useful information and a platform for delivery of services to students, faculty and staff. Through related links to other sites, it also serves as a communication tool allowing students, faculty and staff to share ideas and information in a positive, respectful, responsible manner.
Members of the College community are expected to be familiar with and adhere to these guidelines for the use of networked information technology resources and Internet access established by the College. While the College does not monitor the use of its technological resources on a routine basis, if it believes, in its sole discretion, that a user’s participation may create liability for the College or violates the College’s Web Site or Acceptable Use of Information Systems Policies, the College reserves the right to remove, restrict or deny access to the College’s technology resources to such user.
All
publications must be related to the mission of Quinsigamond Community
College.
By
publishing content on the QCC Web Site, the user agrees to abide by all
governing policies and procedures including the QCC Information Systems
Acceptable Use Policy.
Use
of the QCC Website that violates any local, state, federal or international
law is prohibited. This prohibition includes violation of any copyright law
or software license.
Use
of the QCC Website that in any way harasses or slanders any individual or
organization is prohibited.
Commercial
use of the Website is prohibited. Use of this web Site for political
purposes is also prohibited.
The
rights of academic freedom and freedom of expression do apply to the use of
the QCC Web Site. However, the responsibilities and limitations associated
with those rights are also applicable. In the event of misuse of its
technological resources, or use not consistent with QCC’s Acceptable Use
Policy, the College reserves the right to take actions that it believes are
prudent or necessary, including canceling accounts or denying access to the
QCC Web Site. Decisions of this nature will be made by the President or the
President’s designee. (See
details appendix B and C.)
III. Official
College Publications
Official
publications of the College will be maintained by the appropriate academic
or administrative department.
Departmental
managers are responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of such content.
All
departmental publications must include the College's logo to identify the
content as official information.
IV. Student
Organizations, Staff and Faculty Publications
Student
Organizations, Faculty, and Staff publications must be related to the
professional, educational or academic purposes, which are directly related
to the legitimate business of the College.
Any
violation of copyright laws or any other law is the sole responsibility of
the individual publisher.
Unauthorized
publication of software is prohibited.
Appendix
A: QCC Website Publications
Information published by student organizations, faculty and staff must be
related to professional, educational or academic purposes, which are directly
related to the legitimate business of the College. QCC makes no warranties of
any kind with regard to availability of web site system resources or protection
of individual user's data or published content. While the College does not
routinely monitor or control student, faculty, and staff publications, all
content is subject to audit by the designee of the President.
The views, expressions and information published on the QCC Web Site are
solely those of the author(s) thereof. The
contents of the QCC Web Site do not represent the views of, and have not been
officially approved by the College.
Appendix
B: Quinsigamond Community College Position on
Censorship and Free Speech Regarding Web Content
QCC believes freedom of expression is essential to an open, vibrant educational institution. However, QCC also recognizes its responsibilities to protect individual right to privacy, security and freedom from harassment of any type. QCC’s Office of the President, or the President’s designee, reserves the right to review, edit, and remove any materials from the QCC Web Site which are determined to violate these rights, or the acceptable use policy of the College. The Information Systems Acceptable Use Policy contains a more complete definition of computer harassment.
Appendix
C: Copyright
Violations
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 requires schools who wish to obtain the liability protection available under the law to adopt and implement a policy that provides for the termination of the computer privileges of users who are infringers with respect to on-line copyright violations. In accordance with that law, QCC Web Site users who, in their use of the QCC technology resources infringe on the copyrights of others and create legal liability for the university may have their computer privileges terminated. The standard that the College will use to determine whether or not conduct creates legal liability for the College will be:
a) If the College receives formal notification of copyright infringement due to the actions of a QCC faculty or staff member using the QCC technology resources, the College will notify the faculty or staff member of the claimed infringement. It will be the burden of the faculty or staff member to show that the alleged infringement is not a violation of the law.
b) If the infringement is a verified and actionable violation of the law, the computer privileges of the faculty or staff member may be suspended or terminated by the President or President’s designee.