JISC Legal : All Guidance

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.

Background Video for Wales
Safeguarding: Meeting your e-safety duties (Wales)  

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

The first part of our series on Business and Community Engagement (BCE). This video covers the legal implications of data sharing and research, the application of the Data Protection Act and the application of Freedom of Information legislation. 

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 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. ARCHIVED

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

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

Guidance for e-learning authors on copyright infringement, defences and licences.

Guidance for e-learning authors on licensing third party materials.

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This paper provides a short overview of the rights management issues involved in creating and disseminating electronic learning materials. Managing the process of acquisition and licensing of copyright and related performance rights and moral rights so as to produce and deliver materials to students to time, at acceptable cost and at managed levels of risk.

Second part of JISC Legal series on Business and Community Engagement (BCE). We focus on ownership of works created, provide guidance on employee, student and third party generation of works, consider issues related to joint ownership of intellectual property. Finally we highlight the importance of negotiating agreements early in the collaboration process. 

The prevalence of computer related crime means that FE and HE institutions are affected in many of the same ways as other businesses, organisations and individuals.

This Cybercrime overview paper explores the main obligations imposed on institutions concerning the provision and use of IT facilities in terms of cybercrime.

This briefing paper provides guidance on the data protection law after the recent developments to the law following the Durant v. FSA case and the effect of the amendments to the DPA 1998 made by the FOIA 2000.

The Data Protection Code of Practice is designed to provide guidance to the FE and HE sectors on issues pertaining to Data Protection law affecting their day-to-day operations.

JISC Legal are pleased to host a new resource on the Transfer and Use of Bibliographic Records: Guidance on Legal Issues.  It has been created by Curtis+Cartwright in partnership with Naomi Korn, with funding from JISC.

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.

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 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.

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