JISC Legal today published a useful document on IPR and e-learning.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Networked E-Learning by John Casey (pdf at
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/pdfs/johncasey.pdf
From their newsletter
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/newsletter_06-04.html
The WCC has some documents which may be of interest.
Code of Practice
http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/cop.html
Terms and Conditions
http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/toc.html
JANET Acceptable Use Policy is always a good starting point (especially if you are connected to
JANET).
http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/services/publications/policy/aup.html
Some institutional policies may need updating due to the electronic environment or more
importantly reinforced and policed.
If a practitioner breaches copyright by using an image which they don't have rights to (say from a
magazine) then it is unlikely to go to court and probably no one will notice.
However if a practitioner uses a copyrighted digital image in a learning object which is then
uploaded to a national repository like JORUM then you may find that if the copyright owner finds
out then your institution may find itself facing a bill.
Not going to happen, from the same JISC Legal Newsletter
"Image Gallery on the Prowl!
A well-known commercial image gallery is known to be trawling UK Further and Higher Education
websites in order to find unlicensed images to which it owns the copyright. A number of
institutions have already received invoices from the US-based gallery asking for four-figure
payments as back-royalties for use of the images. UK FE and HE institutions are advised to ensure
that images are not used online without copyright clearance, and that tutors should be reminded
about the possible consequences of the 'right-click'."
Regards
James Clay
WCC Director
On Tue, 2 May 2006 15:54:54 +0100, Fitzpatrick, Simon
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I realise that this has been done before, but I have been asked the
>usual questions about copyright, ipr, data protection, recovery,
>acceptable use policy etc. etc. in terms of an institutional learning
>platform.I am hoping that things may have progressed in the last couple
>of years or so and people are a bit more confident about some of these
>issue.
>
>My feeling is that some of these issues should be covered by
>institutional policies anyway, but some may not. Would anybody be in a
>position to share policy docs on any of the above or to point me at some
>useful materials.
>
>Many thanks
>
>simonf
>
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>Adult Learning
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