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

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

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

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

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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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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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Latest Developments in IP: Law, Policy and Practice - An Update for Librarians and Information Professionals.

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The 3rd edition of Paul Pedley's Essential Law for Information Professionals is now available from Facet Publishing.

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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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The ICO has updated guidance on how public electronic communications service providers should respond to security breaches.

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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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FE and HE institutions have an opportunity to contribute their views on copyright licensing in the UK as Richard Hooper issues a call for evidence as part of the independent feasibility study into the development of a Digital Copyright Exchange for the UK (DCE).

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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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The Government today announced the appointment of Richard Hooper, former Deputy Chairman of Ofcom, to lead a feasibility study into the development of a Digital Copyright Exchange for the UK (DCE).

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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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This resource, by Tony Kent, aims to provide basic copyright information to guide those involved in the restoration and remastering of old sound recordings.

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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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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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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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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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A new working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research can be made more accessible.

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Cloud computing - two further papers by the Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Cloud Legal Project

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Came into force on 31 December 2009.   

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(NLA) v Meltwater - In the particular circumstances of commercial news headlines and their monitoring and copying for commercial gain much of the content will attract copyright protection.

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Recommendations made by the Hargreaves review of intellectual property and growth have been accepted by the Government.

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HE and FE institutions are being invited to sign-up to a new set of open metadata principles.

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 This conference aims to shed light on some of the most recent developments affecting Archives and Records Management across Scotland.  

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A data controller is able to anonymise originally-personal data to make it free of data protection law constraints.

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 The short answer is that taking photograph of artwork (being a copy of the artwork) is likely to be copyright infringement, unless ... (cont) 

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Ownership of copyright is key to the use of works created in universities and colleges, as the owner has control over their reuse.  ... (cont)

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We are pleased to announce the launch of JISC Legal Plus - a new staff development service bringing JISC Legal's expertise to your institution at competitive prices...  (cont'd)

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The Hargreaves copyright law review calls for a loosening and simplification of some aspects of copyright law.

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The Open Government Licence enables users to do the following with public sector information offered for use expressly under the licence...(cont'd)

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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.

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