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Posted on May 23, 2012 14:42
ICO says that enforcement action for use of Google Analytics cookies without prior consent is unlikely.
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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 18, 2012 08:57
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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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 May 03, 2012 15:20
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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Posted on May 01, 2012 14:58
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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Posted on May 01, 2012 11:47
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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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 24, 2012 14:17
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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Posted on April 20, 2012 14:04
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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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 April 16, 2012 09:31
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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Posted on April 13, 2012 11:22
An IPO online survey seeks to assess the effectiveness of design law in the UK.
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Posted on April 11, 2012 08:55
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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Posted on April 10, 2012 12:52
Social networking websites used to threaten teachers.
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Posted on April 03, 2012 12:20
On behalf of SCORE, librarians completed a survey on institutional engagement in OER. The survey is now available to download.
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Posted on March 28, 2012 15:21
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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Posted on March 22, 2012 09:56
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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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 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 14, 2012 09:29
Thirteen UK universities have received awards supporting the management of intellectual property and knowledge exchange.
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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 01, 2012 16:21
Durham University breached the Data Protection Act after disclosing personal information on its website.
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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 January 20, 2012 14:27
The Intellectual Property Office is looking for input on the new small patent claims procedures proposals, which have been designed to simplify and speed up the process.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 13:33
The ICO has updated guidance on how public electronic communications service providers should respond to security breaches.
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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 December 09, 2011 16:27
The High Court states that even where private individuals are expressing their own views online the requirements of lawful processing in the DPA can apply.
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Posted on December 06, 2011 12:49
The High Court has ruled that search giant Google does not have to pay damages for defamation suffered to a UK intelligence adviser via a blogging platform which Google owns.
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Posted on December 02, 2011 15:34
The Cabinet Office recently published this document in order to encourage effective use of public sector data.
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Posted on November 28, 2011 13:52
Penalties of £60,000 and £80,000 are served after highly sensitive personal information is emailed to the wrong recipients.
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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 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 25, 2011 11:05
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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Posted on October 18, 2011 10:19
A free patent service has been launched by the Intellectual Property Office.
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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 11:12
Changes to the Protection of Freedoms Bill have been published which are designed to increase protection for unpublished research.
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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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Posted on September 14, 2011 15:37
Cloud computing - two further papers by the Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Cloud Legal Project
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Posted on September 14, 2011 12:49
Came into force on 31 December 2009.
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Posted on September 07, 2011 13:51
A medical student on placement at a hospital transferred personal information of patients onto an unencrypted medical stick.
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Posted on September 01, 2011 15:38
A user's consent is required before it is lawful to store and access information on their computer.
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Posted on August 31, 2011 18:21
Online defamation cases in England and Wales have more than doubled in the last year.
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Posted on August 03, 2011 10:25
Recommendations made by the Hargreaves review of intellectual property and growth have been accepted by the Government.
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