Official UNC Policy on Copyright and Network Usage
The following is from "Copyright
and Acceptable Use on the University Network - A Primer"
What kinds of activities are probable violations of copyright law?
- Copying and sharing most MP3s, images, movies, or other copyrighted
material.
- Posting or plagiarizing copyrighted material on your personal webspace.
- Unauthorized downloading anything of which you don't already own a
copy (software, MP3s, movies, etc.).
What is considered unacceptable use at UNC-Chapel Hill?
The following activities are forbidden by the UNC-Chapel
Hill Data Network Acceptable Use Policy (please see this policy
for additional unacceptable activities):
- Commercial for-profit activities. You can't run a business or even
engage in for-profit activities over the campus network.
- Generating excessive network traffic or consuming excessive network
resources apart from educational use. This often occurs when file-sharing
programs (Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, KaZaA, etc.) are used to share a large
number of files.
- Mass emailing.
- Distributing any kind of obscene materials, particularly child pornography,
which is illegal.
- Threatening harm by harassing, stalking, transmitting obscenities,
or other criminal offenses.
- Attempting to gain access to an individual's account or to nonpublic
parts of the campus network.
- Attempting to intercept data transmissions on the campus network.
- Engaging in any electronic activities that violate any local, state,
national, or international law.
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