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Full Text of HB4380  95th General Assembly

HB4380ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Higher Education Committee

Filed: 4/1/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4380

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4380 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by
5 adding Section 9.33 as follows:
 
6     (110 ILCS 205/9.33 new)
7     Sec. 9.33. Student residential computer networks.
8     (a) The Board shall require public institutions of higher
9 education that have student residential computer networks to do
10 the following:
11         (1) adopt and reasonably implement a policy defining
12     computer and network usage and ethics that applies to
13     students, staff, and faculty; that clearly describes and
14     prohibits the infringement of copyrighted works over the
15     institution's computer and network resources, including
16     over the institution's local area and internal networks;

 

 

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1     that details the penalties for infringement provided under
2     both State and federal law; and that is visibly posted in
3     the institution's computer labs and when users sign on to
4     the network; and
5         (2) subject to subsection (b) of this Section, if the
6     institution receives 10 or more legally valid notices of
7     infringement within the preceding year, undertake
8     reasonable efforts to install and implement a
9     technology-based deterrent system to attempt to prevent
10     the infringement of copyrighted works over the
11     institution's computer and network resources.
12     (b) Nothing in this Section is intended to prohibit the
13 noninfringing use of copyrighted material by students, staff,
14 and faculty, to restrict an institution's use of copyrighted
15 material under the provisions of Section 107 of Title 17 of the
16 United States Code, or to waive the protections available to
17 Internet service providers under Section 512 of Title 17 of the
18 United States Code.
19     A student or faculty member may request, and the
20 institution may grant in writing, permission to use a
21 particular software application or file that has been
22 prohibited on the institution's computer and network resources
23 under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this Section if the
24 institution determines that such use is for academic, research,
25 or other purposes consistent with Section 107 of Title 17 of
26 the United States Code.

 

 

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1     (c) Each institution to which subsection (a) of this
2 Section applies shall, by January 15 of each year, report to
3 the Board either (i) that the institution has not received 10
4 or more legally valid notices of infringement within the
5 preceding year from owners of infringed works or their
6 authorized agents or (ii) a detailed description of the
7 reasonable efforts the institution has taken to install and
8 implement a technology-based deterrent system under
9 subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this Section.
 
10     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11 becoming law.".