You are at this point because you have consistently violated the University of Minnesota’s policies concerning the misuse of Copyrighted material or excessive Internet bandwidth, and your violations have been verified; therefore:

1. You must now write a paper that is 5-7 pages long in which you explain why downloading copyrighted material is against University of Minnesota policy and United States law;

2. You must write a paper in absolutely correct American Psychological Association (APA) format;

3. You must write this paper in the third person and in the past tense;

4. You must include a title page, a running header, an abstract, the body of the paper, and a references page. The title page, abstract page, and references pages are not counted as part of your 5-7 pages of text;

5. Your finished paper will be run through plagiarism-detecting-software;

6. You must email your paper as a Microsoft Word attachment to Dr. Selzler (bselzler) with Cc: to medal;sperling;psherven and tmulvane;

7. If you commit plagiarism in any form, you will be in violation of UMC’s Student Conduct Code, and you will be subject to disciplinary action beyond the writing of this paper;

8. Your paper will become part of a permanent database;

9. You must use the following sources to write your paper:

Brinson, D., & Radcliffe, M. F. (1996). An intellection property law primer for multimedia and web developers. Retrieved September 22, 2003

Cable News Network. (2004). Music industry suing 532 song swappers. Technology. Retrieved January 29, 2004

Legal Information Institute. (2003). U.S. code collection: Title 17. Retrieved January 29, 2004

Recording Industry Association of America. (2004). New wave of record industry lawsuits brought against 532 illegal file sharers. Retrieved January 29, 2004

Templeton, B. (2003). 10 big myths about copyright explained. Brad Templeton’s Home Page. Retrieved September 22, 2003

United States Copyright Office. (2004). Copyright. Retrieved September 22, 2003

University of Minnesota, Crookston. (2003). UMC Campus Policy on Scholastic Dishonesty. Retrieved January 29, 2004

Bernard J. Selzler
Professor of Communication
1-29-04