How does the University handle takedown DMCA notices against undergraduate students?
When Cornell, as an ISP, receives a takedown DMCA notice regarding a particular user, it submits the user’s account to the Network Quarantine process. That process causes the user’s campus connection to be routed to a single link that has information about the notice. The user is asked to check a box stating that he or she understands what the notice is why it was received that he or she is being strongly urged to take the online Copyright Education Program which provides necessary information about copyright law and file sharing technologies Once the user checks that box, the network connection is restored. If the same user subsequently receives a second takedown notice, he or she will then be required to take the Copyright Education Program. Failure to take the program will result in a meeting with the Office of Judicial Administration. The Office of Judicial Administration will automatically adjudicate a third notice to the same user, generally with the consequence that the user’s c
