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

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To meet the needs of librarians involved in the acquisition of electronic resources, UKSG is offering a practical one-day Licensing and Negotiation Skills course.

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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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A story published this week in the Higher Education network blog highlights the issue of universities monitoring social media sites.

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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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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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To purpose of this Moral Rights and OERs Essentials paper is to provide publishers of open educational resources (OERs) with a summary of when and how moral rights impact on the creation of OERs.

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A recent Opinion for the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has taken a pragmatic approach to the law surrounding the resale of unwanted computer programs.

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A court found YouTube contributed to copyright infringement by its users by failing to act quickly to remove unlawful content after it was notified by rights holders.

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The Information Rights Tribunal has ruled that the names of three junior members of staff who dealt with complaints made to the Financial Services Authority should have been disclosed as part of a Freedom of Information request. 

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The Information Rights Tribunal recently ruled that the names of three junior members of staff who dealt with complaints made to the Financial Services Authority should have been disclosed as part of a Freedom of Information request.  

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Staff at institutions using mobile devices in teaching and learning may be interested in providing their views on how to regulate wireless networked devices.

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A joint report published by the UKIPO and the USPTO concludes that both offices have been making efficient use of each other's work, resulting in an improvement in the quality of patents being granted.

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The course will support all those who need practical solutions to copyright issues.

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Copyright and accessibility law need to be considered when using mobile devices. To help give you confidence in your compliance with the law, here are top tips for getting to grips with copyright and accessibility when using mobile devices.

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A healthcare trust has undertaken to encrypt all mobile devices and provide appropriate staff training following the loss of two memory sticks containing patient information.

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This guidance is intended for university or college archives dealing with bequests of research papers and provides information on the legal issues which need to be considered in particular where an institution intends to digitise and add documents to an institutional repository.

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Where research papers are bequeathed to an institution copyright, data protection and freedom of information are relevant legal areas to consider, and the issues are summarised in the FAQ.

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An IPO online survey seeks to assess the effectiveness of design law in the UK.

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The International Chamber of Commerce UK has published cookie guidance to help website operators move towards compliance with new consent requirements.

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Social networking websites used to threaten teachers. 

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Our Mobile Technologies and the Law webcast (streamed live on 14 March 2012) can now be accessed in captioned, bite-sized segments.  

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On behalf of SCORE, librarians completed a survey on institutional engagement in OER. The survey is now available to download.  

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The Department for Education is to appeal the ICO decision which ordered Michael Gove to release information contained in private emails.

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Emails although sent from a staff member's private email account can still be subject to FOIA.  

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JISC infoNet has published research on the true cost to an HE institution of processing an FOI request.

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New animated film on Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource.

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Guidance has been issued for government departments and other public sector bodies on how to comply with the new cookies regulations.

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The need for simpler copyright licensing in the world of digital media has been identified in a new study.

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A student who admitted posting racially offensive comments on social networking site, Twitter, has been sentenced to 56 days imprisonment.  

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A former cricketer has been awarded damages of £90,000 plus legal costs by the High Court, in England, after suing over a defamatory tweet alleging that he was involved in match-fixing.  

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A security research company found that 36% of data breaches were caused by ‘a negligent employee or contractor’.

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The Educational Recording Agency (ERA) has been in discussions with the BBC and Channel 4 to change their terms and conditions to include their on-demand services as services which falls within the ERA licence. 

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JISC Legal is contributing to the "Security and the Cloud" session at Networkshop, the technical conference for staff in education and research.

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‘Communication to the public’ does not cover radio broadcast in a private dental surgery.

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Home Secretary Teresa May has approved the decision to extradite a student accused of copyright infringement to the US.

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The ICO papers include an informative presentation on cloud computing and data protection.

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A Scottish charity was found to have breached the Data Protection Act following the theft of unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing personal data from an employee's home.

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