- *Intent:*This service is intended for use by MIT academic, administrative, research, and student groups. If you wish to create a wiki site for personal use, please use the SIPB wiki service, Scripts.mit.edu.
- *Acceptable Use:*This service is to be used for legal purposes only, and in conformance with the Policies and Procedures of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For example, you may not use it to post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory, obscene, or other unlawful material, including another's proprietary information, including trademarks or copyrighted information without express authorization from the rights holder.
Space Administrator's Responsibilities: The person or group designated as space administrator has first-line responsibility for ensuring that content and access control for the site adhere to the above-mentioned policies and procedures.General Obligations. Use of this site must be in accordance with all applicable Federal, state and local laws and any applicable MIT Policy. [Ed note: Much of chapters 9 through 13 is relevant.] Of special importance in this latter regard are policies on:
- 9.5 Policy on Harassment
- 9.8 Access and Accommodations for Employees and Students with Disabilities (ADA Compliance)
- 11.0 Privacy and Disclosure of Information
- 12.0 Relations With The Public, Use Of MIT Name, And Facilities Use
- 13.0 Information Policy, particularly
- 13.2.2 Information Security and Preservation
- 13.2.3 Responsible Use of MIT Computers, Networks, and Telephones
- 13.5 Reproduction of Copyrighted Material
Copyright Law. Of special concern is the issue of authorized copyrightable materials. Everyone involved in user-provided content web sites share several important objectives (1) the encouragement of uploads of wholly original and authorized content, (2) the accommodation of fair use of copyrighted content, and (3) the elimination of infringing content, and (4) the protection of legitimate interests of user privacy.
Service Providers have a distinct obligation to educate all of the users of the system in connection with the objectives above, and where required, to enforce those obligations.
Service Providers should include in conspicuous place information for Content Originators that they may not upload infringing content and that, by uploading content without appropriate authorization they may be in violation of copyright law.
Service Providers should include information in a conspicuous place information for Content Users regarding the allowable/unallowable uses of content once downloaded.
Copyright Infringement Takedown Notice Policy. Service Providers should include in a conspicuous place a contact point for claims of copyright infringement. When given notice of alleged infringement, Providers must (a) remove or block content expeditiously, and (b) take reasonable steps to notify the person who uploaded the content. Providers need to promptly address conflicting claims with respect to alleged infringing materials.
Providers should retain for at least 60 days information related to user uploads of audio and video content to their services, including Internet Protocol addresses and time and date information for uploaded content.
Copyright Infringement Repeat Infringers Policy. Providers should use reasonable efforts to track infringing uploads of copyrighted content by the same user and should use such information in the reasonable implementation of a repeat infringer termination policy.
User Provided Content Web Sites Acceptable Use Policy
- *Quotas and fees:*The Wiki Service currently imposes no quota limits or fees. This is subject to change.
- AttachmentsYour wiki space is intended to be primarily a space for collaboration with your colleagues. Uploading files as attachments is useful and legitimate, particularly in-process documents you and your colleagues may be working on. For static and large-size files, however, other file storage options, such as AFS lockers, are often more appropriate. And, even though they aren't uploaded directly to your wiki space, you can still link to them from your wiki space.
- Authentication: Members of the MIT community can authenticate to the service by means of MIT Certificates or by logging in through MIT's Touchstone service.
- Non-MIT people can sign up for accounts and can be granted access to your space. These users will log in by means of a username/password page.
- Anonymous access: Space administrators should be careful in setting 'anonymous' permissions their space(s). Wiki spaces to which 'anonymous' has been granted permission are viewable by anyone in the world, regardless of whether they have an account in the system. Only grant permission to 'anonymous' in cases where this is the appropriate level of access. Also, do not grant permissions greater than 'view' to 'anonymous' except in cases where absolutely necessary. If you do grant permissions beyond 'view', please be sure to set a 'watch' on the space so that you can deal immediately with any unacceptable content.