These top tips from JISC Legal serve as a quick reminder of the main areas to be addressed in meeting your e-safety duty. This guidance can be accessed in Word and PDF formats.
Some timely advice here from JISC Legal, the JISC specialist legal department, on a practise which is becoming increasingly common as recording equipment becomes cheaper and more portable. This guidance (available to download) examines the legal implications of recording lectures at UK FE and HE institutions, focusing mainly on the issues of copyright and consent. It includes a flow chart of the legal issues and model consent form for institutions to use and can be accessed in Word and PDF formats.
JISC has launched a toolkit to allow information officers, IT directors, security managers and their staff to better understand the legal issues involved in managing identity issues. Identity management is key to many processes and services that universities and colleges provide for students, staff and other individuals and the sector as a whole can benefit from improved identity management practice.
The internet has made sharing library catalogue records easier for libraries and users – but with it comes a new set of challenges surrounding the legal implications. A new JISC toolkit helps librarians navigate the legal minefield of making their catalogue records available to others. The aim of the guidance is to enable librarians to take a risk management approach to making their catalogue records available for re-use and to audit their current legal position. Listen to more advice from authors Claire Davies and Max Hammond from Curtis and Cartwright in the podcast interview (Duration 12:31)
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Download the podcastAdvanced notice of a new JISC legal webcast scheduled for the 3rd of March at 14:00 and an invitation to help shape the content of the webcast. The webcast will focus on relevant statutory duties, areas of liability for institutions, tips on writing an e-safety policy and guidance on appropriate incident response. Full details will be available nearer transmission programme but in the meantime, JISC legal want to hear from you. Please email any suggestions, comments, or scenarios that you would like to be included to: info@jisclegal.ac.uk. Mark the subject ‘webcast’.
This newly-released guide from the Information Commissioner’s Office explains the purpose and effect of each data protection principle, and gives practical examples to illustrate how the principles apply in practice. By answering many frequently asked questions about data protection, the Guide should prove a useful source of practical advice to those with day-to-day responsibility for data protection. The Guide to Data Protection is also available as a printable pdf.
One for senior managers and HR departments (as well as those staff in business departments who might be teaching courses in employment law). The Employment Law Organiser is available to download at no charge from BIS (Department for Business Innovation & Skills). The tool is designed to help businesses manage the key legal obligations they are required to fulfil as an employer.
It presents employment law facts clearly and simply, giving easy access to the information you need, when you need it. Available to download onto your desktop, Employment Law Organiser contains three clear sections that cover the lifecycle of an employee – from their start date to when they leave.
In NewsFeed we are always trying to highlight some of the best web services and practical ways you can use them in teaching and learning. While many of these services are free there are potential risks you need to mitigate against. What do you do if the 3rd party site withdraws their service? Does your institution allow you to upload student work to external services.
Helen Hodges at RSC Wales has put together some very useful resources outlining Web2.0 – issues and potential solutions.
JISC Legal reports that an action filed in the High Court alleges that a London based removal firm, JA Coles, used the copyright protected image on its website. Getty Images had a contract in place to market the particular photograph on behalf of the photographer. By using a tracking service to expose unlawful use of its images it found the photograph on the JA Coles website. FE and HE institutions are reminded that it is very dangerous to re-use images found on the internet without permission. Further, this news story highlights the consequences that such behaviour could bring. Click for more on this story .
JISC Legal has recently published two templates detailing the blanket copyright licences available to FE and HE institutions. These templates provide a useful reference tool for institutions, outlining the type of licences available and enabling FE & HE staff to review the licences held at their respective institutions