e-Portfolios: Assessing the Legal Issues

Addressing the legal issues arising from ePortfolio development and use can take considerable time and effort. However, an early investment in those issues can save considerably more effort later on, by highlighting key issues and allowing ePortfolio providers to plan to avoid them or ameliorate their effects. Many matters can be addressed, at least in part, by ensuring that e-Portfolio provider staff and learners are provided with adequate information and guidance. Maintaining adequate documentation of processes and decisions also helps to provide continuity in approach to legal issues over time.

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ICO Publishes Vexatious Request Guidance
Three new guidance papers on handling vexatious, manifestly unreasonable, and repeat requests in an FOI and EIR context have been published by the ICO.

Improving Access to Copyright Works for Visually Impaired People

The IPO is holding an open meeting to discuss draft WIPO copyright treaty proposals that aim to harmonise copyright exceptions for visually impaired people.

New Bill Seeks to Reform UK IP Laws
A new Intellectual Property Bill
 proposes changes to the UK's intellectual property regime.

IPO Evaluates the Impact of the Lambert Toolkit for Business and University Research Collaborations
This report examines whether the Lambert Toolkit which includes model agreements for collaborative research has been of benefit to UK universities and their industry partners.

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