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Higher Education Committee Releases Report on P2P
djeaux writes "The Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities has released a "Background Discussion of Copyright Law and Potential Liability for Students Engaged in P2P File Sharing on University Networks." The Joint Committee includes representatives from a number of universities, education groups, entertainment industry representatives, and the presidents of RIAA & MPAA. The paper provides an overview of copyright law relating to on-campus P2P file sharing and concludes that "(c)olleges and universities generally do not have a legal duty to control students' private conduct. Students therefore should not assume that their college or university will accept liability for them or provide them with legal representation." The report was distributed to presidents of all institutions that are members of the American Council on Education on Friday, August 8." -
Anti-Terrorism Law and Higher Education
StudMuffin writes: "The American Council on Education website has a succinct summary of the new anti-terrorism legislation. The issues raised are those most likely to cause problems on our campuses around the United States. Specifically, the facts that schools must now turn over student records to investigators without informing the students, allows (get this!) monitoring of persons here on student visas, turnover of electronic communications and records, obtain IP addresses and routing and addressing data, records of URL's accessed, and most unfortunately ... install Carnivore at will to track internet use on campus. There are also specific regulations about university researchers and their ability to use biological agents in quantities not 'reasonably justified.' What about all of this doesn't suck? We give up a little freedom now, and later it's impossible to get it back." PDF only -- I wish they would put up a text version as well. -
Anti-Terrorism Law and Higher Education
StudMuffin writes: "The American Council on Education website has a succinct summary of the new anti-terrorism legislation. The issues raised are those most likely to cause problems on our campuses around the United States. Specifically, the facts that schools must now turn over student records to investigators without informing the students, allows (get this!) monitoring of persons here on student visas, turnover of electronic communications and records, obtain IP addresses and routing and addressing data, records of URL's accessed, and most unfortunately ... install Carnivore at will to track internet use on campus. There are also specific regulations about university researchers and their ability to use biological agents in quantities not 'reasonably justified.' What about all of this doesn't suck? We give up a little freedom now, and later it's impossible to get it back." PDF only -- I wish they would put up a text version as well.