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Posted on May 21, 2012 16:52
Creative Commons is working on the 4.0 suite of licences - a draft is now available.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 11:51
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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Posted on May 04, 2012 15:50
The Protection of Freedoms Act, 2012 achieved royal assent on 01 May 2012.
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Posted on April 27, 2012 12:25
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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Posted on April 27, 2012 12:12
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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Posted on April 26, 2012 14:18
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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Posted on April 23, 2012 11:19
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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Posted on April 16, 2012 16:13
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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Posted on April 16, 2012 11:11
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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Posted on March 29, 2012 15:53
New animated film on Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource.
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Posted on March 28, 2012 10:51
Charles Oppenheim, Emeritus Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University, will present on issues related to the latest proposed changes in the UK copyright law.
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Posted on March 26, 2012 16:14
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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Posted on March 20, 2012 14:52
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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Posted on March 19, 2012 15:42
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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Posted on March 15, 2012 15:35
Home Secretary Teresa May has approved the decision to extradite a student accused of copyright infringement to the US.
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Posted on March 15, 2012 10:09
Changes to copyright law could enable access to new knowledge that would otherwise remain undiscovered.
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Posted on March 02, 2012 15:47
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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Posted on March 02, 2012 14:28
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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Posted on February 24, 2012 10:46
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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Posted on February 23, 2012 10:11
Latest Developments in IP: Law, Policy and Practice - An Update for Librarians and Information Professionals.
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Posted on February 21, 2012 10:11
This webcast will examine and clarify the legal challenges for colleges and universities that are using or considering using cloud computing services.
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Posted on February 17, 2012 16:01
This guidance is intended for staff in sixth form colleges and aims to provide a helpful overview to key legal issues relevant to sixth form colleges in the development and use of ICT.
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Posted on February 13, 2012 09:27
This guidance is intended for those in colleges and universities with responsibility for data protection, and for those involved in the introduction and use of mobile devices.
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Posted on February 10, 2012 10:11
The 3rd edition of Paul Pedley's
Essential Law for Information Professionals is now available from Facet Publishing.
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Posted on February 10, 2012 10:10
Performance rights exist independently of copyright and moral rights in any work. The performer is the first owner of the performance and will have rights in their performance and any recording, film or broadcast of that performance.
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Posted on February 06, 2012 10:42
The HTML version of JISC Legal's guidance on Security, Mobile Devices and the Data Protection
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Posted on January 27, 2012 17:51
Belief that copyright permission has been granted is no defence to infringement of copyright if no valid permission was, in fact, given.
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Posted on January 27, 2012 14:45
The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) is inviting applications for the OER Residential Course to be held from 18 to 23 March 2012. The closing date for applications is 2 March 2012.
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Posted on January 10, 2012 13:28
Following discussions with the BBC and Channel 4, the ERA Licensing Scheme recently confirmed that changes have been made in order to support access to some BBC and Channel 4 on-line services, for educational purposes.
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Posted on December 22, 2011 15:47
The Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner this week published its report of an audit of Facebook Ireland Ltd.
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Posted on December 22, 2011 12:40
These top tips serve as a quick reminder of the main areas to be addressed and sources of help available when recording lectures.
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Posted on December 21, 2011 12:47
The Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC) Umbrella licence (available at
http://www.mplcuk.com/ is not required when showing DVDs or pre-recorded films for educational purposes, for the following reasons:
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Posted on December 16, 2011 16:45
To stream a feature film there are two issues involved, and two possible sets of permission required .... (cont)
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Posted on December 14, 2011 15:13
A consultation has been announced to gather evidence on proposals to widen copyright exceptions including private copying, non-commercial research and library archiving.
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Posted on November 30, 2011 10:01
Data protection and other legal issues remain the same for a college or university when hosting, offering or using blogs, wikis, and any other ... (cont)
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Posted on November 24, 2011 14:40
The OER IPR Support Team will be holding two JISC / HEA funded half day workshops at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester.
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Posted on November 23, 2011 11:27
A new report finds there have been over 1000 cases of personal data loss since 2008 including those involving a significant number of mobile devices.
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Posted on November 22, 2011 11:58
This guidance is designed to help institutions deal with consent management when sharing personal data across and between institutions and external service providers.
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Posted on November 18, 2011 09:20
JISC's online conference Innovating e-Learning 2011 is being held from 22 - 25 November, and as part of the pre-conference activity week JISC Legal have recorded a short webcast entitled Mobile Learning - Identifying and Reducing the Legal Risks at your College.
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Posted on November 15, 2011 10:30
New tools being developed will shield personal data and reveal when sites do not respect privacy requests.
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Posted on November 08, 2011 09:44
The OER IPR Support Team will be holding two free half day workshops on Tuesday 6th December 2011 at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester .
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Posted on October 24, 2011 11:56
This JISC Collections briefing paper includes FAQs on what is and is not permitted regarding remote access to resources by staff and students in partner institutions.
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Posted on October 17, 2011 11:56
Mobile Learning – Identifying and Reducing the Legal Risks at your College. See now the Mobile Technologies and the Law Webcast (14 March 2012)
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Posted on October 13, 2011 16:48
The Protection of Freedoms Bill was read for the third time and passed by the House of Commons on 11 October 2011. The Bill will now be considered by the House of Lords.
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Posted on October 13, 2011 11:32
Proposals in the Protection of Freedoms Bill include amending the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public.
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Posted on September 30, 2011 12:26
This article examines the potential impact on HE and FE institutions of the EU Directive that extends the term of protection for performers and sound recordings to 70 years and which came into force on 31 October 2011.
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Posted on September 27, 2011 10:05
The ICO has produced guidance to aid understanding and application of FOI legislation for higher education institutions with a particular focus on research information.
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Posted on September 27, 2011 09:25
New IP guidance to enable businesses to protect their own IP and to respect the IP of others has been launched.
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Posted on September 16, 2011 16:28
A new working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research can be made more accessible.
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Posted on September 16, 2011 14:51
Raising the awareness and understanding of IP among students is key to achieving an IP savvy graduate workforce.
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