JISC Legal : All Guidance

An intensive session of presentations and questions and answers on the legal issues of accessibility in the development and delivery of e-learning materials.

When developing e-learning environments or authoring elearning materials, it is important that educational institutions and e-learning authors bear in mind the institution’s obligations under disability discrimination legislation.

This document will assist those dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE activities.

Guidance on how to use the Blanket Licence Template for FE.

Template to provide FE institutions with details of each blanket copyright licence that they may hold.

Guidance on how to use the Blanket Licence Template for HE.

Template to provide HE institutions with details on each blanket copyright licences that they may hold. 

This webcast raised awareness of the legal aspects of Business and Community Engagement.

Staff in UK further and higher education establishments may be involved in the exploitation of their intellectual property creations with outside bodies. This guide is intended to assist staff in understanding the different approaches and their consequences which they may encounter.

This briefing gives an overview of some of the legal issues which may arise in relation to the use of technology by UK further and higher education establishments in their Business and Community Engagement ("BCE") activities.

Over the last few years, however, there has been a shift towards supplementing these activities by providing services to the business and social communities.  This service provision is known as BCE. 

This paper is intended to assist staff in UK further and higher education establishments who are involved in the use and creation of intellectual property as part of Business and Community Engagement (BCE) activities.

This guidance document is intended to provide relevant personnel within further and higher education institutions with an introduction to State Aid law and clarify some of the issues which such institutions may face when collaborating with, or providing services to, the private sector.

This paper provides details on how to create an effective consortium agreement and explains why they are needed. 

A Briefing Paper on the legal implications under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 of provision by education service providers of digitised materials to colleges and universities.

Copyright Advisor, Alan Rae, discusses copyright, e-learning and the pilot CLA digitisation licence within FE.

This publication is aimed at UK further and higher education staff working in areas related to knowledge transfer, work based learning, community links, outreach, CPD, employer engagement, wider participation, and lifelong learning.

This case study considers some of the copyright issues which can arise when a college or university is engaged to design software or a website for a company.

This case study considers some of the copyright issues which can arise when a college or university uses the software which it holds under licence to provide a commercial training course.

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This paper identifies good copyright practice specifically for those in Further Education.

A report on the legal aspects of common agreements for federation-identity provider and federation-service provider agreements.

Report on the use of Publicly-funded Infrastructure, Services and Intellectual Property.

An examination of intellectual property rights (IPR) in student created work.