For example, use of individual pages for illegal, commercial, or profit-making endeavors is prohibited. Individuals are expected to comply with relevant FSC policies, state and federal law, and any relevant copyright or licensing agreements relating to the use of intellectual property. Student personal Web pages housed on the Fairmont State College Web server are considered the responsibility and property of the student account holder during the period the account is assigned. Personal student Web pages are not subject to College policies for external communication, graphic identity and public information. The views and opinions expressed by students on personal Web pages are strictly the views and opinions of the authors and do not in any way carry the official sanction of Fairmont State College.
Students assume full legal and moral responsibility for the content of their Web pages.
They must abide by all local, state, and federal laws that pertain to communication and to publishing. These include relevant laws in the areas of libel and copyright. Copyright law may pertain to all published and unpublished material, including cartoons, still and motion pictures, graphics, text, song lyrics and sounds. Students are advised to consider the public nature of information they disseminate on the Internet via the World Wide Web. Information in a home page is published and available to everyone who can get to the World Wide Web.