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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...
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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 ... (
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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.
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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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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 31, 2011 16:27
(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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Posted on August 31, 2011 15:49
One of the legal rights a copyright holder has is the right to control the renting or lending of a work to the public. Copyright in a work is not infr...
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Posted on August 31, 2011 11:48
Amazon encourage multiple purchase of their Kindles for use in education, however at present this does not extend to multiple use of digital con...
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Posted on August 04, 2011 10:51
Vince Cable has announced that controversial plans to force ISPs to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped.
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Posted on August 02, 2011 16:05
In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.
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Posted on August 02, 2011 16:01
In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.
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Posted on July 26, 2011 16:19
Member of staff failed to realise they had made an error while carrying out work on the University’s IT system.
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Posted on July 19, 2011 16:17
If you are thinking of signing-up to a US hosted e-learning service, your data will be hosted on US servers so you will have to take into account your...
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Posted on July 11, 2011 16:44
HE and FE institutions are being invited to sign-up to a new set of open metadata principles.
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Posted on June 29, 2011 14:59
The answer is that it depends on what is permitted by the owner of the rights in the work being copied and made available to learners.
...
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Posted on June 29, 2011 13:00
A free online course, Intellectual Property Rights for Educational Environments (IPR4EE) has been launched aimed at those involved in developing online and/or open learning and teaching resources.
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Posted on June 27, 2011 15:49
Two new Creative Commons Compatibility Wizards help users determine licence compatibility when blending CC licensed resources into new OERs.
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Posted on June 21, 2011 13:45
When focusing on the use within OERs of materials derived from public sector information (provided under an Open Government Licence), the crux of the ...
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Posted on June 16, 2011 16:45
A data controller is able to anonymise originally-personal data to make it free of data protection law constraints.
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Posted on June 15, 2011 16:00
A Sheffield Hallam University student faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of copyright infringement.
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Posted on June 15, 2011 15:00
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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Posted on June 15, 2011 15:00
Copyright in a work is not infringed by lending by an educational establishment. However you may find that a restriction ... (cont)
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Posted on June 14, 2011 14:29
A new law that comes into force today (14 June 2011) in England and Wales will make it easier to protect patent and design rights.
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Posted on June 06, 2011 11:30
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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Posted on June 03, 2011 11:31
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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Posted on June 01, 2011 11:18
Peer To Patent is an online system that aims to improve the quality of issued patents.
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Posted on May 25, 2011 11:24
The ICO has published guidance on enforcing the new rules allowing a one year 'lead in' period for institutions to comply.
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Posted on May 19, 2011 09:41
This is a decision for the institution to make. There have certainly been various news articles highlighting privacy and data protection concerns related to Facebook, and similar issues apply to other external social networking sites ... (cont)
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Posted on May 18, 2011 09:41
The Hargreaves copyright law review calls for a loosening and simplification of some aspects of copyright law.
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