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with fair use or licensed agreement. This includes music,
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terminate the network access of users who are found to have
repeatedly infringed the copyright of others. Students
with questions about copyrights or this policy are invited
to raise those questions with any dean, tutor or academic
officer. Staff supervisors and members of the Faculty are
welcome to call the University's Office of General Counsel.
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Harvard community and to on-site users of Harvard's libraries
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Harvard's licenses for electronic resources, users generally
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including but not limited to the sale of the licensed
materials
- reproduce or redistribute licensed materials in bulk or in a systematic way
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