This course will provide you with sufficient understanding of your responsibilities to be able to plan and manage the processing of personal data in a time of increasing complexity and concern about privacy.

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This course is for managers or businesses who handle public information and wish to plan the efficient management of FOI compliance.

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The Intellectual Property Office is seeking to improve its mediation service.

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This is a decision for the institution to make. There have certainly been various news articles highlighting privacy and data protection concerns related to Facebook, and similar issues apply to other external social networking sites ... (cont)

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The European Court of Justice recently confirmed that copyright does not protect the functionality of a computer programme and programming language.

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Student complaints against universities in England and Wales have risen by 20% according to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator’s annual report for 2011.

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A new bill seeking to strengthen Scotland's Freedom of Information legislation is being considered by their government.

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A new bill seeking to strengthen Scotland's freedom of information legislation is being considered by their government.

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The CLA has drafted a Code of Conduct outlining how the CLA will act in its dealings with licensees and other copyright users in relation to queries regarding its licences.

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The Constitution Unit at UCL highlights the benefits and difficulties for universities in complying with FOI.

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This one-day workshop has been specifically designed to guide university managers through the thicket of law and practice on the full range of equal opportunities issues - which many of us find so daunting.

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New government proposals, to be added to the Defamation Bill, state that internet 'trolling' victims have a right to know who is behind the malicious comments made about them.  

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The ISEB CERTIFICATE IN DATA PROTECTION is ideal for those who wish to have their knowledge and expertise recognised through a formal qualification.

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The ISEB CERTIFICATE IN FREEDOM OF INFORMATION is ideal for those who wish to have their knowledge and expertise recognised through a formal qualification.

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The ISEB CERTIFICATE IN DATA PROTECTION is ideal for those who wish to have their knowledge and expertise recognised through a formal qualification.

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The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012 (IWMW 2012) event, hosted by UKOLN, will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 18th - 20th June 2012.

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This online seminar will provide an introduction to the law of copyright.

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The Masterclass will provide more in-depth training about the copyright legislation, relevant case law, other related rights and more detailed discussion about some key topical issues.

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The training course provides an introduction to the principles of copyright law and practice within the context of the work of library and information professionals.

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The 3-day conference is hosted by Privacy Laws & Business in Cambridge at Fitzwilliam College this year.

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The EU Parliament’s negotiating team has voted in favour of reforming copyright legislation in order to make available ‘orphan works’ in on-line archives.   

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This is an event held by the Information Services Group (London and South-East Section) and Legislation Services at The National Archives.

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£325,000 penalty for hard drives containing sensitive data for sale on the internet.

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The ICO has begun a public consultation on a new anonymisation code of practice.

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The next CLA workshop will be held at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

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This course is for managers of businesses who handle public information and wish to plan the efficient management of FOI compliance.

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This course will provide you with sufficient understanding of your responsibilities to be able to plan and manage the processing of personal data in a time of increasing complexity and concern about privacy.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office has updated advice and changes to the EU cookie law on the ICO blog.

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A college or university will require a TV licence and a PRS and PPL licence to show free to view television channels on TV screens in public spaces.

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This half day workshop is the perfect opportunity to ensure that you are up to date on the best methods for protecting creative output and preventing infringement of others intellectual property rights.

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The fees to be paid by users of media monitoring services to access online newspaper content have been established following a Copyright Tribunal ruling that the terms were ‘'reasonable'’.

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ICO says that enforcement action for use of Google Analytics cookies without prior consent is unlikely.

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The UK Government has published new guidance for civil servants covering the benefits and pitfalls of social media. 

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Creative Commons is working on the 4.0 suite of licences - a draft is now available.

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Improving the protection of freedom of speech and increasing access to vital communications, including internet use, are proposed in the Queen's speech.

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Where copyright infringing third party material is included in an ‘e-thesis’, liability will lie with all parties who have taken part in the activity that is infringement. 

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The ICO is to make changes to the information a public authority is required to release proactively in its FOI publication scheme.

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It is reported today that the majority of the UK government’s many websites will miss the deadline for compliance with the cookie legislation.

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Twitter is contesting a US court order requiring it to hand over a user's message history.

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This QMUL paper looks at the developments in cloud contracts including those which will increase legal certainty and compliance.

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The Protection of Freedoms Act, 2012 achieved royal assent on 01 May 2012.

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Learners have a right of privacy to personal communications (article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) but colleges have ... (cont)

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The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee today published a report which concludes that the draft agreement on the European Unified Patent Court is likely to hinder rather than help the enforcement of patents within the European Union.

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The EU’s cyber security agency, ENISA has launched a practical guide for IT procurement teams which assesses the security of cloud service providers.

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An employment tribunal recently held that an employee was fairly sacked for posting obscene Facebook messages.

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The Digital Economy Act 2010 was given royal assent late on Thursday, 8 April 2010, following the final reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Commons, the previous night.

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A Welsh health board has been issued with a £70,000 fine following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act,1998. 

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UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) including Sky, Virgin Media and Talk Talk must block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, the High Court has ruled.

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Despite fewer fines for private firms than public organisations over an eleven month period, the Information Commissioner’s Office says issuing monetary penalties depends on strict criteria, not whether an organisation is private or public.

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The purpose of this Moral Rights and OERs Overview paper is to guide publishers of open educational resources (OERs) on the meaning of moral rights, when and how these impact on the creation of OERs and measures which may be taken in order to avoid infringement of moral rights.

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