JISC Legal : Web 2.0

This Essentials Guide provides readers with a direct, point-by-point guide to the Equality Act 2010's disability discrimination provisions and their application to further and higher education.

This guidance is designed to help institutions deal with consent management when sharing personal data across and between institutions and external service providers.

A simplified step-by-step guide to Copyright Law for FE and HE.

A simplified step-by-step guide to intellectual property law for UK colleges and universities.

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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.

This guidance document examines the Digital Economy Act 2010 and its implications for universities and colleges in the UK.

Yes, if you are using your website to provide a service the Equality Act 2010 states that you should not discriminate against disabled persons in the provision of the service.

A new Intellectual Property Bill proposes changes to the UK's intellectual property regime.  The changes are being brought in an attempt to simplify patent and design protection laws and to help businesses be better off as a result of the changes. 

The purpose of the reforms is to ensure that defamation legislation is fit for modern times.  The Act aims to strike a balance between the right to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation.

Government commits April 2013 as the date for introducing Legal Deposit regulations for non-print materials.  The Non-Print Legal Deposit regulations enable the British Library and the UK legal deposit libraries to collect, store and preserve the nation's memory in the digital age. The content will include online articles and books, and websites.

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013.  The new legislation will effect the UK's current intellectual property regime.  Changes include the fact that orphan works will be licensed for use for the first time.  

Schools and colleges can assess their own level of e-safety using this online tool.

ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.

Useful guidance including practical legal tools to assist with Web 2.0 - template licences, model releases, policies and forms can be found on the Web2Rights website.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its report ‘Security and Resilience in Governmental Clouds’ which assesses the operational, legal, and security requirements of cloud computing.

Information Commissioner publishes top tips on freedom of information for public authority communications professionals.

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.

This publication by JISC infoNet, the Association for Learning Technology and the Higher Education Academy explores whether e-Learning is delivering tangible benefits for learners, teachers and institutions.

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.

Guidance for public sector organisationsaims to make current equality law more consistent, clearer and easier to follow in order to make society fairer.

JISC Techdis, a JISC Advance service, works with the HE and FE sector in the UK in the field of accessibility and inclusion.

The Strategic Content Alliance has produced a useful IPR toolkit covering the IPR background, practical tools, template policy statements, case studies and links to further reading.

Founded in 2002, the Anti-Bullying Alliance provides information on how to effectively tackle bullying in different environments.

Safeguarding is a crucial and influential part of the college inspection and review process.  This will include the e-safety of learners.

The Internet Watch Foundation, established in 1996, aims to minimise the availability of online criminal content.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre delivers a multi-agency service dedicated to tackling the exploitation of children.

Becta work mainly with the Government departments within DCSF (Department for Children Schools and Families) and BIS (Business innovation and Skills).  Becta provides guidance for schools and colleges on keeping learners e-safe.

The ICO site offers guidance on data protection and how to keep personal information safe.

This useful presentation is a recording of Jason Miles-Campbell on RSC TV. 

The Welsh Repository Network has published a learning tool to help you consider some of the copyright issues for multimedia respositories.