Harassment Regarding Teaching or Classroom : Office of Faculty Development : UMass Amherst

Contact the Dean of Students Office

Report student misconduct, discrimination, or harassment to the Dean of Students Office (umass.edu/dean_students/report-incident; 413-545-2684).

Under US copyright law, faculty own the course materials they create, including lectures, lecture notes, materials, syllabi, study guides, and all web-ready content.
Lectures and other class content cannot be recorded and distributed by students without the professor’s explicit consent.
Only the faculty member, and anyone to whom the faculty member explicitly grants permission, may reproduce, distribute, upload, or display course materials created by that faculty. See the UMass Intellectual Property Policy (T96-040) here.
If their material has been uploaded to a third-party website, they can send a copyright takedown notice (17 USC 512). See MSP’s advice on how to protect classroom materials in Appendix 3 on the Academic Freedom Crisis Toolkit main page.
The MSP recommends communicating this to the students in the syllabus. Wording is provided in Appendix 3. Although US copyright takedown law applies whether students are warned or not, students can be disciplined for violating the professor’s established course policies under the disruptive conduct clause (Appendix 7.1 of the student conduct handbook).