The following acts not only violate Rikkyo University's computer terms of use, but also violate the laws listed in parentheses. Please pay close attention to these points when using your computer. - Acts contrary to public order and morals (criminal law, civil law)
- Acts that infringe intellectual property rights such as copyrights and trademark rights of others (copyright law, patent law, trademark law, etc.)
Example) Quoting a part of a newspaper editorial without permission and stating an opinion on it.
→ Newspaper articles describing facts, but not actually copyrighted works, are limited to articles that briefly describe the facts, such as "personnel news and obituaries." If you use other articles without clarifying the source, there is a high possibility that you will be charged with copyright law violation.
Example: I converted a CD I purchased myself into an MP3 file and uploaded it to the website. A note on the homepage reads, "After downloading this file, please purchase the corresponding CD within 48 hours."
→ Even if you write this kind of notice, if you put anything that should be protected by copyright on a server that others can freely access, you are infringing on copyright. - Acts that cause inconvenience or disadvantage to others, and acts that violate human rights such as slander and slander (Criminal Law/Civil Law)
Example) bulletin board bulletin board the homepage has been set up to slander a certain baseball team. Someone other than the founder posted a message on the bulletin board defaming the baseball team and the team's locals.
→ Even if the message is not written by the manager himself, depending on the purpose of creating bulletin board and how it is managed, not only the person who posted the message, but also the creator and manager may be held legally responsible. - Acts of providing another person's ID, password, address, telephone number, etc. to another person without permission, or posting it on the website (unauthorized access prohibition law, civil law)
Example) A friend from Rikkyo University gave me the password, and I posted the ID and password on an external website bulletin board without permission.
→ Even if you do not actually use your ID and password without permission, simply telling them to others without permission will help unauthorized access. - Unauthorized intrusion into other networks (unauthorized access prohibition law, civil law)
- Acts that hinder network operation (Criminal Law, Telecommunications Business Law, Civil Law)
- What is Intellectual Property Rights
- In addition to photographs and music, copyright includes quotations from articles and texts in newspapers, magazines and books, and care should be taken not to exceed the limits of legitimate quotations. In addition to trademark rights, name rights and portrait rights may also be protected as intellectual property rights, so please be especially careful when creating websites.
- What is unauthorized access
- Regardless of whether or not there is actual damage, using other people's IDs and passwords without permission, or attacking security holes to intrude into computers is prohibited and punishable as cheating.
In addition, even if you provide another person's ID / password without permission, you will be punished for promoting unauthorized access. It doesn't matter if you get any financial benefit from giving it.
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