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Legal Guidance for ICT Use in Education, Research and External Engagement

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OER IPR Support

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OER IPR Support Project

A project funded by the Higher Education Academy and JISC, and delivered by JISC Legal, Web2Rights and Creative Commons UK, to give OER Phase 2 projects support and guidance relating to intellectual property rights, and other legal issues.

JISC Legal have issued a new guidance paper in March 2011 as part of this project:

Strategic Managment of IPR for OER in UK HE addresses some of the background issues regarding management of intellectual property rights (IPR) in UK universities. In particular, this guidance aims to assist institutions by prompting strategic decisions that may need to be taken in relation to the management of intellectual property, and to inform those decisions. The full paper is available here: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/tabid/243/ID/1926/Strategic-Management-of-IPR-for-OER-in-UK-HE.aspx.

For the main OER IPR Support website, please visit www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport

OER IPR Support Resources

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FAQs

Moral Rights and OERs - Overview

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.

(27/04/12)

Moral Rights and OERs - Essentials
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. (27/04/12)

Recording Lectures and the Law Top Tips (22/12/2011)
These top tips serve as a quick reminder of the main areas to be addressed and sources of help available when recording lectures. (22/12/11)

Protection of Freedoms Bill 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. (13/10/11)

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.

(30/09/11)

Newspaper Headlines Can Attract Copyright Protection

(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.

(31/08/11)

Licensing Your Educational Resources Video (30/3/2011)

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.

(30/03/11)

Strategic Management of IPR for OER in UK HE (29/3/2011)

This paper is written in the context of the JISC and Higher Education Academy Open Educational Resources Programme (Phase 2), and aims to address some of the background issues regarding management of intellectual property rights (IPR) in UK universities.

(29/03/11)

Legal Aspects of the Use of Child Images in OERs (15/3/2011)

This paper considers the legal issues which arise in relation to the taking of or possession of images (still and moving) of children for use in an Open Education Resource.

(15/03/11)

Proposed New EU Rules to have Child Pornography Online Deleted

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.

(16/02/11)

Defamation Bill 2011

This bill seeks to amend current defamation legislation and is progressing through Parliament. The main focus of the bill is to make sure that defamation legislation is fit for modern times.

(11/02/11)

Clashing Cultures: OER and Rights Clearance (or how to save a copyright officer’s sanity)

In the world of intellectual property, there is no getting away from the fact that clearing rights in audio-visual resources is rarely straightforward. However, there’s a lot of good stuff out there that can be incorporated into OER, without the trials and frustrations of content clearance.

(26/11/10)

IPR, Licences and What Do I Have to Do?

This presentation 'IPR, Licences, and What Do I Have to Do?' was developed for the OER IPR support project.

(24/11/10)

The OER IPR Support Project Starter Pack

This collection of materials written by Web2Rights, provides briefings, guides, templates, models and sources of further information in order to assist open educational resource (OER) projects get to grips with intellectual property issues at the outset.

(23/11/10)

Recording Lectures Video (27/10/2010)

This 12 minute video, created for the JISC Innovation and e-Learning Conference 2010, explores FAQs on the legal aspects of recording lectures.

(27/10/10)

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JISC Legal provides a quick-turnaround enquiry service. Send us your question regarding OER and the law by using the online form or by sending an email or by calling 0141 548 4939.

OER News

Creative Commons 4.0 Draft for Comment
Creative Commons is working on the 4.0 suite of licences - a draft is now available. (Posted on 21/05/12)

SCORE Library OER Survey Report

On behalf of SCORE, librarians completed a survey on institutional engagement in OER. The survey is now available to download.

(Posted on 03/04/12)

Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource (OER)

New animated film on Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource.

(Posted on 29/03/12)

Security and the Cloud - Networkshop 40 York

JISC Legal is contributing to the "Security and the Cloud" session at Networkshop, the technical conference for staff in education and research.

(Posted on 22/03/12)