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Cultural perceptions about the relevance of legal issues in a Web 2.0 environment, and practical obstacles in locating authoritative resources about these issues, can present some of the biggest challenges in engagement with next generation technologies to support teaching, learning and research.

• How do we encourage engagement by staff with these issues?
• How can we engender a culture of mutual respect for creative works, as well as one recognising the need for pragmatism and a managed approached to risk?
• Where can we go to find authoritative and appropriate resources and, once found, what tools should be used, when and how?

To address these issues the Web2Rights project, with support from JISC Legal, has taken an innovative approach by harnessing next generation technologies to develop an advisory toolkit and associated resources. Come along to find out more.

All those involved in teaching and research, as well as those in more senior posts to which these people report.

• Naomi Korn, Web2Rights, IPR Consultant (Session Chair)
• Jason Miles-Campbell, JISC Legal, Legal Services Manager
• Professor Charles Oppenheim, Loughborough University, Head of Information Services
• Dr Neill Witt, Plymouth University, Technical Director
• Robert Stillwell, Plymouth University, Senior Learning Technologist
• Professor Charlotte Waelde, Edinburgh University, Chair of Intellectual Property Law (Q & A Only)