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JISC Legal supports institutions creating and sustaining research collaborations and discovering, analysing, processing, publishing, storing and sharing research data and information. Relevant guidance can be found below.
JISC Legal is pleased to present our free Cloud Computing and the Law toolkit for FE and HE professionals.
Jason Miles-Campbell, our Service Manager, provides an informative video about licensing for educational resources, including what licences are available, and considerations in making the choice.
JISC's Freedom of Information and Research Data: Questions and Answers, written by Andrew Charlesworth and Chris Rusbridge, is available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/foiresearchdata.
These Top Ten Tips were created to celebrate JISC Legal's 10th anniversary, all the while looking forward to the challenges UK FE and HE will face in the next ten years.
JISC Legal for UK Research is your guide to they way JISC Legal contributes to providing infrastructure and support to the needs of researchers.
This guidance document examines the Digital Economy Act 2010 and its implications for universities and colleges in the UK.
This useful presentation is a recording of Jason Miles-Campbell on RSC TV.
This document will assist those dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE activities.
This guidance will assist the UK funding bodies when dealing with State Aid issues in the context of BCE.
This guidance document is intended to provide relevant personnel within further and higher education institutions with an introduction to State Aid law and clarify some of the issues which such institutions may face when collaborating with, or providing services to, the private sector.
The legal issues which arise when using e-assessment in UK FE and HE.
The Data Protection Code of Practice is designed to provide guidance to the FE and HE sectors on issues pertaining to Data Protection law affecting their day-to-day operations.
Report on the use of Publicly-funded Infrastructure, Services and Intellectual Property.
This overview explains the application of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act') to UK further and higher education institutions.
If a college or university delivers any Business and Community Engagement activities online, the institution must make sure that its website and processes comply with the e-commerce rules. This guide gives an overview of these rules.
This publication is aimed at UK further and higher education staff working in areas related to knowledge transfer, work based learning, community links, outreach, CPD, employer engagement, wider participation, and lifelong learning.
This overview paper briefly clarifies the current situation with regard to retention of communications traffic data by certain UK organisations.
This briefing gives an overview of some of the legal issues which may arise in relation to the use of technology by UK further and higher education establishments in their Business and Community Engagement ("BCE") activities.
This paper is intended to assist staff in UK further and higher education establishments who are involved in the use and creation of intellectual property as part of Business and Community Engagement (BCE) activities.
The Equality Act 2010 places a legal obligation on FE and HE institutions to not discriminate against staff, learners and other users and visitors to the institution because of a disability.
Ownership of copyright is key to the use of works created in universities and colleges, as the owner has control over their reuse. ... (cont)
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)
The following may represent potential barriers to the release of open educational resources ... (cont)
Although there are many benefits to the adoption of an open educational resource approach with regards to teaching and learning ... (cont)
In short where the institution does not own the copyright in materials and where the copyright period has not expired, permission, a licence or ... (cont)
A further selection of IPR FAQs are availalable from JISC Inform, Issue 26 - Know Your Rights: Intellectual Property and Technology. You can ... (cont)
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.
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.
Came into force on 31 December 2009.
(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.
The Government has launched a consultation on Open Data.
Vince Cable has announced that controversial plans to force ISPs to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped.
Recommendations made by the Hargreaves review of intellectual property and growth have been accepted by the Government.
A single European patent looks ever more likely as agreement is reached on the detail of a unitary patent.
A data controller is able to anonymise originally-personal data to make it free of data protection law constraints.
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.
The European Commission’s proposals for a unitary European patent have now been published.
The unitary EU patent is a step closer with the agreement to proceed with the support of 25 of the 27 EU countries.
The EU has taken a step towards common rules for cracking down on those who sexually abuse children and post images of the abuse on the internet.
The High Court recently decided, in relation to copyright law, that the term ‘making available’ to the public, that the 'making available' happens where the servers send the files, rather than where received.
The European Commission has announced a consultation on the Commission report on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
This significant case confirms that copyright can subsist in a newspaper headline. It also confirms that a user that pays for a web monitoring service requires a licence from the newspaper or the NLA.
The controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA) is to be reviewed by the High Court and subject to a Parliamentary enquiry
A recent official announcement by David Cameron states UK intellectual property laws are to be reviewed to make them “fit for the internet age”.
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.
This JISC infoNet infokit is an online resource that provides support and guidance to institutions development their RIM systems.
Model research collaboration agreements devised by the Lambert Working Group.
The Publishers Association / JISC model licence framework for material supplied in electronic form.
This project will provide IPR and licensing support for JISC/HEA funded OER Phase 2 projects with particular emphasis on the use of Creative Commons Licences.
A resource from the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre aimed at those developing courses which suggests that it is necessary to consider copyright clearance from the start.
This website, which is maintained by the Intellectual Property Office provides guidance on intangible assets and how to manage these assets and create value from them - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ian.htm.
Guidance for public sector organisationsaims to make current equality law more consistent, clearer and easier to follow in order to make society fairer.
This IP Workbook, from Eversheds LLP solicitors, contains practical examples, questions and scenarios on a range of commercially related topics with an intellectual property (IP) dimension.
The Welsh Repository Network has published a learning tool to help you consider some of the copyright issues for multimedia respositories.