Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Resource Manual

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Resource Manual

Introduction

The following paper is basically an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Resource manual, which basically formulated by an educator, who has been directed by the school principal to lead a team whose job is to design a Policy and Resources manual. Given below are the details about the manual.

Copyright Infringement

A copyright infringement or violation of copyright is an unauthorized or prohibited use of works covered by the laws of copyright, including the right to copy, reproduce or make derivative works. In the educational field, it is considered to be a serious offense thus causing a lot of trouble for the students. It is also common to use the term'' piracy'', often pejoratively, to refer to copies of works without the consent of the holder of the copyright. Computer scientist Richard Stallman and the expert in intellectual property, Eduardo Saman, among others, argue that the use of the term to refer to piracy unauthorized copying is an exaggeration intended to equate the act of share with violence pirates ships, criminalizing users. The Free Software Foundation includes this meaning of the term in its list of expressions to avoid in copyright (Adec, 2012).

The scope of protection of the works is governed internationally by the Berne Convention, which establishes a minimum term of 50 years after the author's death. The way you should treat the law these offenses is a topic of controversy in many countries around the world.

Respect for intellectual property and legal protection thereof, constitute one of the essential aspects of socioeconomic and cultural progress of civilized society and as such, they have been enshrined in international treaties, human rights standards, and in the constitutions of the different countries of the world. In Peru, the various constitutions enacted since 1823 to date, have guaranteed the right to intellectual property as an economic and a fundamental human right; protecting the copyright owner of the work, who is the one to decide on the scope of its moral and economic rights.

The School started by recognizing that the issue of infringement of intellectual property rights, in the ways of publishing piracy, illegal reproduction, marketing videos, software piracy and phonographic increase and expand in all major cities of the country, without the State and civil society organizations are effective control mechanisms (Tehranian, 2011). It is in this context that we see how the informal trade of intellectual works products from piracy and expand unrestrictedly increases the passivity of the competent authorities, particularly the publishing piracy has become a real threat to authors and publishers formal; the problem more acute over the indiscriminate use of reprographics through photocopying machines (Education Rights, 2012), which through improved technology have reached extraordinary levels of sophistication reflected in the quality and price.

Policy on Fair Use

The provision on fair use in the copyright act allows the use of works protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright holder or payment of royalties. For there to be fair use, you must pass two tests.

First, the "use" must correspond to one of the purposes set out in a Law on Copyright: research, private study, ...