Hit List

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Contents 1 Objective 2 Criteria 2.1 Student copyright 2.2 Campus network 2.3 Open access scholarship 2.3.1 Journal literature 2.3.2 Monographs 2.3.3 Theses and dissertations 2.3.4 Conferences 2.3.5 Research data 2.3.6 Declarations 2.4 Class software 2.5 Lab software 2.6 Open file formats 2.7 Web standards 2.8 Library digitization projects 2.9 OpenCourseWare 2.10 Patent policy 2.11 Trademark 2.12 Student privacy 2.13 Free speech 2.14 Copyright "education" 2.15 Freedom of information 2.16 Open education 2.17 Random FOSS questions 2.18 Other 3 The Hit List 4 The Good List 5 The Need More information list

Objective

Compile a list of the 10 "worst offenders" of copyright sanity. In other words, what are the universities that pose the biggest threat to free culture on their campuses?

Criteria

Student copyright

• Does the university claim an exclusive right to students' works?

Campus network

• Are certain services or devices (e.g. p2p, gaming, network bridging, wireless access points) banned or limited from being attached to the network? What are the penalties?
• Is there filtering limiting what sites or services students can access from the network? (e.g. Johns Hopkins blocks any access to the IP address of some major BitTorrent trackers.)
• Are students permitted to run anonymizing services such as Tor?
• How readily does the college release information about users of its network?
• If the college provides legal services for students, do they extend these services to students who are sued for copyright infringement on the campus network?
• Takedown policies on hosted Web sites?

Open access scholarship

• Does the college maintain an institutional repository?
  • If there is not a university-wide repository, are there any departmental repositories?
• Does the university have hiring, promotion, and tenure policies that support open access?
• Does the university contribute to open access projects (e.g. financial support, hosting)?

Journal literature

• Does the college have an institutional self-archiving mandate for faculty journal publications? Voluntary policy (e.g. "strongly encouraged")?
• If the college has an institutional research fund(s), is there a self-archiving mandate for publications resulting from funded research? Voluntary policy (e.g. "strongly encouraged")?
• Does the university have a fund for faculty who wish to publish in open access journals that charge processing fees?

Monographs

Theses and dissertations

• Does the college accept or require electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)? Does the college mandate open access to ETDs? Voluntary policy (e.g. "strongly encouraged")?

Conferences

Research data

Declarations

• Is the university a signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative?
• Is the university a signatory to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge?

Class software

• Are students required to use non-free software for their classes?
• If the school uses a course management system, is it FOSS?

Lab software

• Are campus labs running FOSS?
  • No free OSes; no free applications running on non-free OSes
  • No free OSes; some free applications running on non-free OSes (e.g. Firefox on Windows)
  • Some free OSes available (i.e. on specific machines or via dual-boot)
  • Free OSes available exclusively

Open file formats

• Are official documents of the college provided in open file formats (e.g. prospectus, departmental memos, meeting minutes)?
• Are class documents distributed in open file formats (e.g. syllabus)?

Web standards

• Are official college Web sites standards-compliant (valid HTML, CSS)?
• Do official college Web sites use non-free design elements (e.g. Flash)?

Library digitization projects

• Is the university digitizing its public domain holdings, if they're not previously available online?
  • If so, will the digital versions be openly accessible in a free file format? Will the university or its digitization partners claim copyright on the digital versions?
• Is the university digitizing past dissertations (pre-electronic) where the author agrees? (e.g. [1])

OpenCourseWare

• Does the university make its course materials available?

Patent policy

• Does the college's technology transfer office file patent applications for software patents?
• Does the college's technology transfer office file patent applications for business method patents?
• UAEM / biomedical patent licensing

Trademark

• Does the college claim trademark rights on its college colors? (e.g. [2])

Student privacy

• What information does the college collect about students? How is that information used?

Free speech

• Free speech zones?

Copyright "education"

• RIAA et al. misinformation programs?

Freedom of information

• Can you get the college's public records?

Open education

Random FOSS questions

• Is the university's Web server run on FOSS?
• Does the university use FOSS for other applications (administrative, research...)?
• Is software developed at the university FOSS?
• Does the university contribute to FOSS projects (e.g. code, financial, mirroring)?

Other

• Notable free culture-related faculty or academic programs?
• Other comments?

The Hit List

Rank	College	Student copyright policy	p2p filesharing policy	Privacy / Free Speech stuff	Open Access	Network freedom	Courseware
1	USC
2	UH
3	...

The Good List

Rank	College	Student copyright policy	p2p filesharing policy	Privacy / Free Speech stuff	Open Access	Network freedom	Courseware
1	NYU

The Need More information list

Rank	College	Student copyright policy	p2p filesharing policy	Privacy / Free Speech stuff	Open Access	Network freedom	Courseware
1	UW	?	RIAA Lacky, forwards settlement letters and heps RIAA find students	?	?	?	Depends on department
2	SU Law	?	?	?	Not part of Open Access Law Program but moving in that direction	?	no ODF almost all docs are Mircosoft word or PDF from Westlaw
3	Harvard
4	MIT
5	UWaterloo