#Privacy and Intellectual Property Policy
Because of the nature of this course, some of our assignments will have optional components which involve publishing data online or using interactive online resources. That fact has implications for both your privacy and your intellectual property.
Federal laws protect students’ rights to privacy.
Personal information includes your name, grades, email address, gender, sexual orientation, age, phone number,address, religion, marital status, race, and other items.
In this class:
- You are not required to publish personal information.
- The professor will not release your personal information without your permission.
- You must not disclose personal information about other students without permission.
- Your may voluntarily choose to publically reveal your personal information online as part of your academic work. If you do so, please be familiar with the privacy policies relevant to internet resources that you use.
For these reasons, all assignments which use non-Vanderbilt online resources should be considered optional and voluntary. You are not required to complete them to successfully complete this class.
Please request alternate assignments from the instructors if you do not wish to use non-Vanderbilt internet resources.
Copyright laws protect the rights of those who create original works in any medium. In this class:
- The original work you create in this class is your intellectual property.
- You are not required to release the rights to your intellectual property created in this class.
- You must always give proper attribution to other people’s work when incorporating it into your own.
- You must include a copyright statement or a public domain release with all of your original work.
- Your may voluntarily choose to license your work with the Creative Commons licenses or other open licenes. If you do so, please be familiar with the terms that may apply.
For these reasons, all assignments which use non-Vanderbilt online resources and required releasing intellectual property rights should be considered optional and voluntary. You are not required to complete them to successfully complete this class.
Please request alternate assignments from the instructors if you do not wish to use non-Vanderbilt internet resources.
By signing below, I indicate that I have read the above information and I understand that:
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I am NOT required to release my personal information to the public as part of this class.
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I may voluntarily choose to release my personal information to the public as part of this class. If I do so, I agree that I am familiar with the terms of use and privacy policies for online resources to whom I release my personal information.
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All creative work is subject to copyright. I am NOT required to release the rights to my work as part of this class.
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I may voluntarily choose to release my work into the public domain or license it with an "open" or "free" license as part of this class. If I do so, I agree that I am familiar with the terms of the licenses or releases I use.
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This form has been adapted from a form published by G. Christopher Clark, Notre Dame University.
Updated 1/12/2014