Standard 6: Legal Requirements

  1. Legal Requirements
    1. Content owners are responsible for ensuring web pages abide all department, college, district, city, state, and federal policies, rules, and laws. These include, but are not limited to matters of copyright, trademark, registered trademark, obscenity, sexual harassment, and hate speech.
    2. Content owners are cautioned to use licensed software, freeware, or shareware for which the required fee has been paid.
    3. Faculty members are advised to be particularly sensitive to copyright laws when posting copyrighted material to their web site. The "Fair Use" doctrine does not grant approval to provide online access to copyrighted material for classroom use.