Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-7-142

(1) Adopt and reasonably implement a policy defining computer and network usage and ethics that applies to students, staff, and faculty that clearly describes and prohibits the infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources, and that details the penalties for infringement provided under both federal law and the school code;

(2) Make reasonable efforts to post signs in appropriate locations to remind students, staff, and faculty of the policy; and

(3) Subject to subsection (b), reasonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources, if the institution receives fifty (50) or more legally valid notices of infringement as prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.), within the preceding year.

(1) Prohibit the noninfringing use of copyrighted material by students, staff, and faculty;

(2) Restrict an educational institution's use of copyrighted material under 17 U.S.C. § 107;

(3) Waive the protections available to internet service providers under 17 U.S.C. § 512;

(4) Subject public institutions of higher education to any suit, whether for monetary damages, injunctive relief or any cause of action whatsoever; or

(5) Be deemed or construed to waive or abrogate in any way the sovereign immunity of the state, the public institutions of higher education, or any officer or employee of the state or the public institutions of higher education or waive or abrogate in any way the immunity of the state, the public institutions of higher education, or any officer or employee of the state or the public institution of higher education from suit under the eleventh amendment to the United States constitution.