JISC Legal : Guidance by Date

One of the benefits of being a college or university is that you can generally obtain software at reduced rates on an academic licence. This however may have implications when carrying out your Business and Community Engagement ("BCE") activities.

If a college or university delivers any Business and Community Engagement activities online, the institution must make sure that its website and processes comply with the e-commerce rules. This guide gives an overview of these rules.

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.

This overview paper briefly clarifies the current situation with regard to retention of communications traffic data by certain UK organisations.

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.

BCE activities will often involve the collection and use of personal data. Accordingly, institutions must ensure that their policies, practices and procedures cover any processing which they undertake in the course of these activities.

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 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.

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. 

Webcast providing practical guidance on legally accessing user email accounts, computer hard drive or network storage. 

A personal view by Steve Bailey of changes in records management and what they might mean.

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

An outline of the legal issues of podcasting as an educational tool and practical advice on how institutions can ensure legal compliance.

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.

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 overview paper briefly explains the law relating to data protection and its application to the sharing of data, internally and externally, by Further and Higher Education (FE and HE) institutions. 

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

This paper assesses the potential  legal risks involved in project management.