Intellectual Property
Students should be aware that this course contains the intellectual property of their instructor, past instructors, TA, and/or the University of Waterloo. Intellectual property includes items such as:
- Lecture content, spoken and written (and any audio/video recording thereof);
- Lecture handouts, presentations, and other materials prepared for the course (e.g., PowerPoint slides, Web pages);
- Questions or solution sets from various types of assessments (e.g., assignments, quizzes, tests, final exams); and
- Work protected by copyright (e.g., any work authored by the instructor or TA or used by the instructor or TA with permission of the copyright owner).
You are allowed to download lecture videos and course materials for your own academic use, but you should not copy, share, disseminate, upload, or use them for any other purpose without the explicit permission of the instructor. For example, do not share this course’s materials with third-party online repositories. Doing so is a violation of intellectual property rights and laws and (depending on the use) may be an academic offence.
Permission from the instructor is also necessary before sharing the intellectual property of others from completed courses with students taking the same/similar courses in subsequent terms/years or sharing them by uploading them to an online repository. In many cases, instructors might be happy to allow distribution of certain materials. However, doing so without explicit permission is considered a violation of intellectual property rights.
Please alert the instructor if you become aware of intellectual property belonging to others (past or present) circulating, either through the student body or online. The intellectual property rights owner deserves to know (and may have already given their consent).
Relevant University policies include: