JISC Legal : e-Portfolios

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

JISC Legal's support for projects and others in the areas of Institutional Innovation, Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development.

This collection of documents have been produced under the JISC Programme MLEs for Lifelong Learning: Building MLEs across HE and FE by the Legal & Records Management Study project and includes guidance on ePortfolios.

This paper assesses the potential  legal risks involved in project management.

Legal issues which may affect the development and use of particular ePortfolio systems.

This paper, written by Andrew Charlesworth and Anna Grant in 2006, provides details on Open Source Licences and discusses ... (cont)

This paper provides details on how to create an effective consortium agreement and explains why they are needed ... (cont)

A JISC study to explore the Legal and Records Management Issues relating to the concept of the Lifelong Learner record.

This paper considers what the legal issues are in relation to institutional ePortfolio systems ... (cont)

This paper considers many factors affecting data protection and institutional ePortfolio systems including compliance issues ... (cont)

A JISC study to explore the Legal and Records Management Issues relating to the concept of the Lifelong Learner record.

This paper, written by Andrew Charlesworth and Anna Grant in 2006, provides details on Open Source Licences and discusses ... (cont)

This paper provides details on how to create an effective consortium agreement and explains why they are needed ... (cont)

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.  

This flowchart highlights steps to follow and relevant permissions required when seeking to release non public material in SCOOTER, an OER. 

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

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