JISC Legal : All News

JISC Legal's Jason Miles-Campbell presented "Five Top Copyright Law Tips for Colleges and Universities" as part of RSC Scotland South & West's RSCtv programme on Tuesday, 9 March 2010..

Under new Government proposals the amount of fees that solicitors can charge for successful libel cases on a no-win, no-fee basis will dramatically be reduced from April this year. 

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has issued its opinion on the concepts of the terms 'controller' and 'processor.'

Every single YouTube video with English language audio can now support captioning created by speech recognition software thus improving the sites accessibility for videos. 

On Thursday, 7 March 2010, we had our 1000th subscriber to JISC Legal's free once-a-month newsletter, keeping the UK's colleges and universities up-to-date on matters of ICT and the law.

A surprise amendment forced through for controversial clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill could lead to entire sites being forced offline if it becomes law.

This webcast was designed to assist institutions in meeting their legal duties and inspection needs in relation to safeguarding and e-security.

Under proposals outlined in the Digital Economy Bill, universities, libraries and small businesses offering wi-fi services will not be exempt from ensuring that their networks are not used to infringe copyright.

The Welsh Repository Network has published a learning tool to help you consider some of the copyright issues for multimedia respositories.

JISC infoNet has recently published a new web presence aimed at providing a central point of access for those interested in research information management. 

New rules of procedure for the Copyright Tribunal will come into effect on 6 April 2010.

The majority of people asked in a recent survey on copyright law in the UK have little or no knowledge of what is legal, reports Consumer Focus.

A new law aimed at tackling stalkers as well as those who harass individuals via text or online is being proposed by Scottish Ministers.

The Royal Bank of Scotland recently lost their appeal against the decision that they were in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.  

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 Code of Practice for Assessment Notices will be published in April 2010 by virtue of Part 8 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

The SHERPA/RoMEO service, funded by JISC, helps repository depositors find out about a publisher's copyright position. 

The third sector will see copyright exemptions for public playing of sound recordings and music removed from April 2010

The University of East Anglia is to investigate how Freedom of Information requests were dealt with.

Removing potentially libellous material posted by website users as soon as possible can protect from liability