Original URL: http://web.mit.edu/cwis/faq/guidelines.html

Guidelines for Appropriate Use of MIT's
Campus Wide Information Systems

Table of Contents

1. Style and HTML Coding Guidelines
2. Copyrighted materials
3. Pictures and video
4. Commercial activity on the MIT network
5. Private business
6. Use of Institute Name
7. Fundraising and Advertising
8. Reselling network IP services

1. Style and HTML Coding Guidelines

2. Copyrighted materials

   You may not place any materials owned by others, i.e. copyrighted works, on your Web page without the expressed permission of the copyright owner. (Examples: cartoons, articles, photographs, songs, software, graphics scanned in from published works or other web pages).

   Assume materials you find on the Web are copyrighted unless a disclaimer or waiver is expressly stated. You may include quotations of a few words provided you identify the author and the work from which the quotation is taken.

   If you want to include something from another Web page in one of your Web pages, then link to it rather than copy it.

   Licensed materials

   Please take special care with materials licensed to MIT by their owner, for example, Encyclopaedia Britannica entries, Dilbert cartoons, or articles from the Washington Post. These materials are restricted to use within MIT. No one has the right to place these materials on Web pages and/or redistribute the materials.

3. Pictures and video

   You may not place any pictures or videos of people on a Web page without the permission of the people in the picture or video. Every person has a right of privacy which includes the right to restrict the use of his/her own image. In addition, the picture or video may be protected by copyright.

4. Commercial activity on the MIT network

   Commercial activity on the MIT network is permitted for business done on behalf of MIT or its organizations, and must comply with MIT's Policies and Procedures Section 4.23:

   "MIT's computing and telecommunications facilities and services are to be used for Institute purposes only and not for the benefit of private individuals or other organizations without authorization."

5. Private business

   It is not permitted to run a private business on the MIT network. (Policies and Procedures Section 13.2.3)

6. Use of Institute Name

   From Policies and Procedures, Section 12.3:

   "The Institute's name must not be used in ways that suggest or imply the endorsement of other organizations, their products, or services."

7. Fundraising and Advertising

   Fundraising and advertising may be conducted on the MIT network only under the supervision of officially recognized campus organizations. It must meet the guidelines specified in Policies and Procedures, Section 12.6, "Fundraising on Campus", Section 12.3 "Use of Institute Name", and Section 12.7, "Political Action."

8. Reselling network IP services

   Reselling network IP services over MITnet to individuals or organizations not affiliated with MIT is not permitted.