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

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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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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 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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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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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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Under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 librarians can make a copy of an article on behalf of a student provided that they comply with the provisions set out in ss.38 and 39.

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

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

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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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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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Using video clips in a VLE.

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The EU Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has voted in favour of reforming copyright legislation in order to make available ‘orphan works’ in online archives

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The first step to putting the film content into the VLE is likely to involve making a copy of the content (uploading the content directly from the CD/DVD, for example).

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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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Changes to copyright law could enable access to new knowledge that would otherwise remain undiscovered.

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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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Whatever the mobile technology use, there are legal issues to consider from the outset of your project and this is a checklist of the main areas to consider in your planning process.

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The short answer is that it depends what you are doing with the online newspaper content.  Making multiple copies or copying large portions of online newspaper will require permission from the rights holders usually in the form of the NLA End User Licence.

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The Patents Court recently confirmed that copyright in a film will be jointly held by the producer and the principal director unless there is an agreement to the contrary. 

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The High Court recently ruled that the search giant Google wasn’t responsible for defamatory material posted on its blogging site. 

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BT and Talk Talk have lost an appeal over controversial measures to tackle copyright infringement online - a decision welcomed by rights holders.

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The Prime Minister is expected to back legislative change in the Protection of Freedoms Bill to make stalking a crime.

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Mr Justice Teare ruled that a legal claim could be served via an active and legitimate Facebook account.

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ORGCon is back On Saturday 24th March 2012, at the University of Westminster in the heart of London, from 9.30am onwards.

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Creative Commons UK (ccUK) and iCommons Ltd. are pleased to join with Macmillan Publishers to host a ccSalon: Open Education in the Digital Age.

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Google implemented changes to its privacy policy yesterday which mean that private data collected by one Google service can be shared with its other platforms including YouTube, Gmail and Blogger.

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Durham University breached the Data Protection Act after disclosing personal information on its website.

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The Equality Challenge Unit would like to hear about the steps that institutions take in order  to overcome disabling barriers users may encounter when required to access and make use of services.

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By virtue of s.35 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) an institution is entitled to record broadcasts and communicate the recordings to students situated within the institution [AF1] provided that the recording is....(cont'd)

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Mobile apps will have to disclose how a user’s personal data will be used before users download them.

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Are you aware of the legal implications of using mobile technologies within your institution? Our latest webcast 'Mobile Technologies and the Law' will address the legal aspects of the use of mobile technologies in HE and FE institutions.

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