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Computer Software Copyright & Internet Policies

Culver-Stockton College requires all students, staff and faculty to acquire, copy, and use software in accordance with copyright requirements.

All copyrighted software used on college computers, whether on the main campus network or on college-owned machines in residence halls, administrative offices or on faculty desks can remain on those machines and be used only if evidence of ownership in the form of licenses, appropriate documentation provided by the publisher, invoices, proofs of purchase or locations of such evidence is in the license file maintained by the computer operations staff.

Any individual wishing to place software on the network that requires written permission from the publisher must provide a copy of such permission to the computer operations staff before the software can be installed.

Faculty or staff who have purchased software from an instructional or administrative budget must provide proof of ownership from the publisher before software can be used on college machines. If a single copy of a program has been purchased, that program can be installed on only one machine. An archival copy of the program may be made.

Some software can be used only if an accompanying text is also used; when that text is no longer used, the software must be discarded unless special permission is granted by the publisher. It is the faculty member’s responsibility to notify the computer operations staff when a text is no longer in use so the accompanying software can be removed from campus machines. 

Internet Policy
Culver-Stockton College provides students, faculty and staff access to the Internet via college-owned or personally-owned personal computers utilizing Culver-Stockton College’s network. The bandwidth capacity is to be used primarily for academic and college business purposes. Students may use the bandwidth for leisure purposes as long as they comply with local, state and federal laws or mandates. No student, faculty or staff person is allowed to illegally download any copyrighted material without express written consent of the owning party. No illegal material may be downloaded using the Culver-Stockton College network by any party. Further, no copyrighted material shall be distributed without the express written consent of the owning party. Any violation of this policy will result in disciplinary action. C-SC will release the identity of students, faculty or staff who violate this policy to law enforcement officials who request this information. Examples of applications that are commonly used to provide access to unauthorized downloads of copyrighted material include, but are not limited to, Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus, Imesh, Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, Mirc, etc.

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