Durham University IT services regulations

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Some amusing or odd features:

• Blasphemy and racism are forbidden, along with the usual porn. This probably covers some fortune(1) jokes.
• You can get permission to look at porn for research purposes, but there is no such exemption for reverse engineering software (so no software security research).
• You are not allowed to "access, download, store, or process" comercial spam, or anything that causes "annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety".
• Durham ITS takes a cut of research grants which have provision for computing costs.
• Durham claims all "intellectual property" you create and must be involved in any commercial exploitation.
• For the purpose of these regulations, "any remote IT facilities are deemed to be [Durham] University IT facilities".

Comments

[murkee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that.


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[korenwolf.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much of it is actually enforceable if someone decided to argue the toss and take the legal route. There are certainly bits which could easily fail a "reasonableness" test.