| Recording Lectures and Screencasts Webcast (13/04/2011) |
Our free Recording Lectures and Screencasts webcast is now available in captioned, bite-sized segments. Presented as a lively panel discussion, this is a practical, relevant guide to the legal, technical and accessibility issues involved in recording lectures and screencasts. |
| 10 Year Anniversary: Top Ten Tips (21/10/2010) |
These Top Ten Tips were created to celebrate JISC Legal's 10th anniversary, all the while looking forward to the challenges UK FE and HE will face in the next ten years. |
| Accessibility Law for e-Learning Authors (09/03/2007) |
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. |
| Accessibility Law Webcast (15/11/2006) |
An intensive session of presentations and questions and answers on the legal issues of accessibility in the development and delivery of e-learning materials.  |
| ARCHIVED Intellectual Property Rights - Overview (25/04/2008) |
| ARCHIVED (later version available) This overview paper examines the landscape of intellectual property law and its relevance to the use of information and communications technologies in UK FE and HE. |
| Background Video for Wales (12/03/2010) |
Background Video for Wales
Safeguarding: Meeting your e-safety duties (Wales)  |
| BCE – How to Play Fair – A User Guide (04/12/2009) |
This document will assist those dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE activities. |
| BCE: Data Sharing and Research (03/03/2010) |
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. |
| Blanket Copyright Licences - FE Institutions - Guidance (16/01/2009) |
Guidance on how to use the Blanket Licence Template for FE. |
| Blanket Copyright Licences - FE Institutions - Template (17/01/2009) |
Template to provide FE institutions with details of each blanket copyright licence that they may hold. |
| Blanket Copyright Licences - HE Institutions - Guidance (14/01/2009) |
Guidance on how to use the Blanket Licence Template for HE. |
| Blanket Copyright Licences - HE Institutions - Template (15/01/2009) |
Template to provide HE institutions with details on each blanket copyright licences that they may hold. |
| Business & Community Engagement: Prepare to Engage (update - 18/08/2011) |
This newly updated guide provides information on the intellectual property issues for FE and HE staff working in areas related to BCE, external engagement and knowledge transfer. |
| Business and Community Engagement - Exploiting Copyright - BCE (20/06/2007) |
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. |
| Business and Community Engagement - Legal Issues – An Overview - BCE (20/06/2007) |
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. |
| Business and Community Engagement - Prepare to Engage - BCE (20/06/2007) |
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. |
| Business and Community Engagement - Whose IP is it anyway? - BCE (20/06/2007) |
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. |
| Clashing Cultures: OER and Rights Clearance (or how to save a copyright officer’s sanity) |
In the world of intellectual property, there is no getting away from the fact that clearing rights in audio-visual resources is rarely straightforward. Often, those resources have multiple rights holders, and a commercial value. Attempting to clear all the rights for release under an open licence may be possible in some cases, but it is likely to mean a large investment of time, and possible cash as well. Overall, there’s a lot of good stuff out there that can be incorporated into OER, without the trials and frustrations of content clearance. Leave it to someone else to clear The Beatles back catalogue! |
| Competition and State Aid – What is the law? – BCE (04/12/2009) |
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. |
| Consent Management: Handling Personalisation Data Lawfully (21/02/2011) |
This JISC Legal study, funded by JISC's Information Environment Programme, addresses clear questions that arise in relation to learners’ access and identity. |