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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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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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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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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Under the Freedom of information Act 2000 (FOIA) at s.1(1) any person making a request for information held by a public authority is entitled to have it provided to him.  Most colleges and universities are public authorities under the FOIA and student coursework held by a university or college would be ‘information held’.

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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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New supplementary guidance from the GMC entitled 'Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients' is now available from their website.  

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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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The fees regulations under FOI broadly cover 2 areas- (1) Fee charges for information provided through the publication scheme and (2) fee charges for specific information requests

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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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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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This guidance is intended for staff in independent specialist colleges that provide further education or training for learners with varying learning needs due to disability issues.

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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 blog post at http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/law-and-media-tweets-and-tweeters-updated-105-people-to-follow-judith-townend/ gives a u...

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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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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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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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This site contains music and entertainment industry related updates from 2002 to the present day, categorised and tagged to make it easy to find articles on particular topics.

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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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 In short this use will be considered as a public performance for entertainment purposes and therefore s.34 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ... (cont)

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In terms of copyright law, screenings by a university or college film club will be considered as showing a work in public and as such will be one of the restricted acts which the copyright owner is able to control under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA).

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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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This one-day seminar, "The future of copyright in the digital age and what it means for you", will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law.

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Any monitoring of systems, even if it is minimal, must be done only after consent has been sought from the persons who are subject to monitoring ... (cont)

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To stream a feature film there are two issues involved, and two possible sets of permission required .... (cont)

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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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The law has changed that applies to how institutions must use cookies.

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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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