Any faculty, student, staff member, employee or agent of Valparaiso University who either uses University owned/licensed software or uses University owned/leased computer hardware is subject to this policy.

No user of University computer software may use that software in any manner that is in violation of the software license agreement under which the software was obtained. This includes the making of unauthorized copies of that software and the use of that software on unauthorized computer hardware.

No user of University computer software may use that software in any manner which is in violation of the Federal Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 101 et. seq. This includes the making of unauthorized copies of that software and the use of that software on any unauthorized computer hardware.

No user of University computer hardware may use that hardware in any manner that is in violation of the license/agreement covering the particular software being employed. This includes the use of the hardware for the purpose of making unauthorized copies of software as well as the use of the hardware when that hardware is, pursuant to the software license/agreement, considered to be unauthorized hardware.

No user of University hardware may use that hardware in any manner that is in violation of the Federal Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 101 et. seq.  This includes use of that hardware for the making of unauthorized copies of software as well as using that hardware to run unauthorized software or unauthorized copies of software.

No computer hardware or software manuals shall be copied, in whole or in part, unless permission has been granted for the making of such copies by the author/copyright holder of the manual.

Nothing in this policy shall act so as to diminish the enumerated copyright exemptions relating to teaching, scholarship, or fair use. Nor shall this policy act so as to diminish the enumerated reproduction rights of libraries and archives, as contained in the Copyright Act.

C. Cichowski
Fall, 1989