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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The recent demise of a file sharing service highlights the risks for colleges and universities in considering a move to the cloud or other external service providers.

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Scottish Parliament to approve the appointment of Rosemary Agnew as the new Scottish Information Commissioner.

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The new ICO  guidance is a plain English guide aimed at public authorities and provides a basic overview of the law.

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We have introduced shortened URLs to make life easier for you.

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A tribunal found that where emails are deleted but still exist on back-up servers, they are nonetheless considered to be ‘held’ by an organisation and subject to FOI legislation. 

 

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On five occasions, a local authority sent sensitive personal information about children and carers to the wrong people causing obvious ‘serious upset’.

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The ICO has launched a campaign called Access Aware aimed at increasing awareness within organisations of their data protection obligations in particular what a subject access request looks like and what to do if one is received.

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A serious case review found that a school had failed ‘on every level’ to prevent sexual abuse of pupils by a teacher.

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The new proposals aim to update and harmonise the current EU data protection regime including strengthening individuals’ rights.

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A juror who researched a defendant's history on the internet and forwarded details of what she found to fellow members was sentenced to a six month prison term. 

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A digitally altered image was deemed ‘sufficiently original’ where it was a product of deliberate choice and manipulation, expressing skill and labour.

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The increased use of Twitter, Facebook and email within institutions has led to a rise in unacceptable professional conduct.

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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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New guidance for colleges and universities has been produced to help maximise the return on investment in knowledge transfer activities.

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Social networking sites are changing privacy settings by default which means users' information could be passed on to third party sites.

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JISC Legal is working in partnership with JISC Advance and RSC Wales to offer a free online seminar on Cloud Computing and the Law.

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A new special report to the Scottish Parliament discusses the current state of FOI in Scotland.

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The EU Commission will clarify how ISPs and website hosts should deal with removing and blocking access to illegal content.

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Further to our news posting last month, we can confirm that the proposal for the review of the EU Directive (95/46/EC) has been delayed until late February/March.

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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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The Public Sector Equality Duty Guidance for Wales is now available and includes eight guides on the specific duties.

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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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The ICO describes its approach to security compliance, information rights outcomes sought and current fields of action.

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The Law Society has published a practice note that examines the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. 

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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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The Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner this week published its report of an audit of Facebook Ireland Ltd.  

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Colleges and universities have the opportunity to provide evidence of their own experiences in working with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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The UK Government has highlighted the cost burden which may be placed on public authorities in complying with some FOI requests for information.

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The ICO has published new guidance on access to official business held in private email accounts.

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The Advertising Standards Authority recently reported a marked increase in complaints about digital marketing communications, following a change to their remit in this regard earlier this year.

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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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Guidance has been issued by the ICO on how the rules apply for those operating websites and using cookies.

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A leaked draft EU regulation reveals that legal requirements under data protection law will be tightened up.

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A council has been fined £130,000 after a further breach of the Data Protection Act.

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Emails deceived students on government loans into providing financial details.

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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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The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills today published its Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth which includes a number of actions and initiatives which will be of interest to universities.

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An organisation has recently been prosecuted for failing to notify the ICO that it processed personal data.

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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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New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings funded by the Strategic Content Alliance for learning and teaching launches today.

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The twelve JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs) have today announced the launch of their new integrated website - 

http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/.

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The Cabinet Office recently published this document in order to encourage effective use of public sector data.  

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A cleaner at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary who allegedly contacted a female patient on Facebook has been charged with breach of data protection.

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Facebook's tighter rules on consent and privacy should help colleges and universities in the UK.

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JISC Advance announced today that Sixth Form Colleges will continue to benefit from JISC services - including JISC Legal - for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years.

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Penalties of £60,000 and £80,000 are served after highly sensitive personal information is emailed to the wrong recipients.

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The Government's new set of objectives aim to combat cybercrime and promote economic growth in internet business.

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Find out what your institution should be doing about its use of cookies in the JISC Legal article entitled "Cookies - Six months Until Enforcement".

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