JISC Legal : Hosting Liability

This guidance is designed to help institutions deal with consent management when sharing personal data across and between institutions and external service providers.

Whether you work in a teaching, research, management or support capacity, the toolkit will help you to make confident, informed decisions about implementing cloud computing solutions in your institution.

In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.

An up-to-date, accessible guide for senior managers on ICT law within FE and HE.

This is a recording of our Recording Lectures and Screencasts webcast from April 2011, available in captioned, bite-sized segments. It is a practical, relevant guide to the legal, technical and accessibility issues involved in recording lectures and screencasts.   

This paper considers the legal issues which arise in relation to the taking of or possession of images (still and moving) of children for use in an Open Education Resource. 

This guidance document examines the Digital Economy Act 2010 and its implications for universities and colleges in the UK.

The purpose of the reforms is to ensure that defamation legislation is fit for modern times.  The Act aims to strike a balance between the right to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation.

Government commits April 2013 as the date for introducing Legal Deposit regulations for non-print materials.  The Non-Print Legal Deposit regulations enable the British Library and the UK legal deposit libraries to collect, store and preserve the nation's memory in the digital age. The content will include online articles and books, and websites.

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013.  The new legislation will effect the UK's current intellectual property regime.  Changes include the fact that orphan works will be licensed for use for the first time.  

This flowchart highlights steps to follow and relevant permissions required when seeking to release non public material in SCOOTER, an OER. 

ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.

The European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud computing.  This will feed into the European cloud computing strategy due to be presented in 2012.

A dedicated 'one stop shop' has been produced, telling the public about their FOI rights, and a step by step guide on how to use them.

This toolkit aims to guide information professionals in assessing cloud computing services for information use and storage, including development of a cloud computing strategy.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its report ‘Security and Resilience in Governmental Clouds’ which assesses the operational, legal, and security requirements of cloud computing.

This project will provide IPR and licensing support for JISC/HEA funded OER Phase 2 projects with particular emphasis on the use of Creative Commons Licences.

Guidance for public sector organisationsaims to make current equality law more consistent, clearer and easier to follow in order to make society fairer.

The EDUCAUSE Information Resources Library includes a collection of policies from the education sector. It includes example policies on acceptable use, copyright, data retention, e-mail, licensing, security and general use of the web.
http://www.educause.edu/browse/647.

This report has been extracted from BitLaw - an Internet resource on technology law, patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues.  
BitLaw was created by Daniel A. Tysver, a partner with the intellectual property law firm of Beck & Tysver.
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/isp.html.

Full text of an article by Michael L. Siegel, published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology [4 Va. J.L. & Tech.7 (Fall 1999)].
http://www.vjolt.net/vol4/issue/v4i2a7-siegel.html.

Full text article by D. Lichtman and E.Posner of the University Of Chicago Law School, written July 2004.
http://papers.ssrn.com/soL3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=573502.

A hypothetical case of ISP liability produced by the Harvard Law School.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/ISP/overview.html.

This DTI consultation investigating proposals to extend the limitation of liability allowed to hyperlinkers, location tool services and content aggregators focuses on Articles 12-14 of the Electronic Commerce Directive. It was published in December 2006 and is available on the BERR website at: http://www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/page13985.html.

If you are looking for an Internet and E-mail Policy then the guides on the OUT-LAW website are a useful starting point . A user login is required and registration is free at - http://www.out-law.com/page-2.