{"id":324,"date":"2014-06-02T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:28:35","slug":"id-2900","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/id-2900\/","title":{"rendered":"2900 Digital Copyright Safeguards for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original Date: 6\/22\/2010 * Last Revision Effective:\u00a04\/6\/2015<br \/>\nPolicy Contact: Vice President, Student Affairs<\/p>\n<h2>Policy<\/h2>\n<p>Bellevue College respects the individual initiative and inventiveness involved in the creation of intellectual property. Though modern technological developments have made infringement of copyrights technically simple and even commonplace in our society, the college expects all students to comply with applicable federal, state and local laws governing copyrighted digital material.<\/p>\n<p>In order to comply with the law established under the federal Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA), signed into law on August 14, 2008, the college will establish and implement written procedures for explicitly informing students about copyright law and campus policies related to violating copyright law, civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials, alternatives to illegal downloading of copyrighted digital materials, and college disciplinary procedures for handling incidents of unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.<\/p>\n<p>These established procedures will also include a written plan for effectively reducing\u2014through the use of one or more technology-based restrictions\u2014the unauthorized electronic distribution of copyrighted materials by student users of the college network, including distribution through peer-to-peer file sharing. This plan will include a process for periodically reviewing the effectiveness of these restrictions using relevant assessment criteria. Any procedures established under this policy may not unduly interfere with legitimate educational and research use of the college network. Failure to establish these procedures would risk withdrawal of federal funding for the college.<\/p>\n<h2>Responsibilities<\/h2>\n<p>All Bellevue College students will comply with this policy and its accompanying procedures document. College representatives also have responsibilities under this policy, including:<\/p>\n<h3>Policy Maintenance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Student Affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The primary responsibility for maintenance and administration of this policy rests with the vice president of student affairs. The vice president is responsible for drafting updates and changes to this policy, with input from the campus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information Technology Services (ITS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Information technology services will work with the director of the library media center to establish the procedures and technical processes required to implement this policy.<\/p>\n<h2>Relevant Laws and Other Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/laws-and-policy\/higher-education-laws-and-policy\/higher-education-opportunity-act-of-2008\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bellevue College Policy <a title=\"3600 Copyright and the Right of Fair Use (not Finished)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/id-3600\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#3600: Copyright and the Right of Fair Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bellevue College Procedure <a title=\"2900P Digital Copyright Safeguards for Students (Procedures)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/id-2900p\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#2900P: Digital Copyright Safeguards for Students (Procedures)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Original 6\/22\/2010<br \/>\nRevisions 9\/11\/2012; 4\/6\/2015<\/p>\n<h2>Approved By<\/h2>\n<p>President\u2019s Cabinet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Date: 6\/22\/2010 * Last Revision Effective:\u00a04\/6\/2015 Policy Contact: Vice President, Student Affairs Policy Bellevue College respects the individual initiative and inventiveness involved in the creation of intellectual property. Though modern technological developments have made infringement of copyrights technically simple and even commonplace in our society, the college expects all students to comply with applicable <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/id-2900\/\">...more about 2900 Digital Copyright Safeguards for Students<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2141,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}