Subject: Guidelines pertaining to copyright regulations
What You Should Know
Downloading movies and music from the Internet without permission of the copyright owners is illegal. It is a
violation of Messiah College policy and of Federal Copyright laws. When students download copyrighted material,
both the students and Messiah College can be held responsible. There are watchdog groups for the Recording and
Motion Picture Industries that monitor these types of Internet downloads. If they report students to Messiah
College, those students will face consequences, such as losing their network access, coming before the peer review
board and/or legal sanctions as applicable. For more information, please see the Web Copyright and Objectionable
Content Policy (http://www.messiah.edu/offices/pr/web_staff/policy/copyright.html) and Top 5 myths about
downloading Internet music (http://www.messiah.edu/etc/downloading.html). It is the responsibility of students
who are accessing files to make sure that they do not contain copyrighted works, or that the student has the
permission of the copyright holder.
Messiah College uses bandwidth shaping to monitor usage to and from suspect sources. In the the event that the
College becomes aware of the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials, either by internal monitoring or
through notification by outside sources, it will proceed according to the published Web Copyright and
Objectionable Content Policy (http://www.messiah.edu/offices/pr/web_staff/policy/copyright.html) as well as
additional policies/procedures as applicable.
Users desiring to download music, movies or other protected content, must use services such as iTunes, Amazon
Music Store or another legal media source.