Protection of Intellectual Property

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Title 5, California Code of Regulations Section 41301 as revised by California Education Code Section 66450 through 66452:

Any student of a campus may be expelled, suspended, placed on probation or given a lesser sanction for one or more of the following causes which must be campus related:

Unauthorized recording, dissemination, and publication of academic presentations for commercial purposes. This prohibition applies to a recording made in any medium, including, but not limited to, handwritten or typewritten class notes.

The term "academic presentations" means any lecture, speech, performance, exhibition, or other form of academic or aesthetic presentation, made by an instructor of record as part of an authorized course of instruction that is not fixed in a tangible medium of expression.
The term "commercial purpose" means any purpose that has financial or economic gain as an objective.

"Instructor of record" means any teacher or staff member employed to teach courses and authorize credit for the successful completion of courses.
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