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Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) will be at the forefront of JISC’s activities and services and in many cases, both underpin and determine the various types of projects that JISC funds and support that it offers.

Over the course of the last few years, the JISC, its projects and services have themselves developed a range of supporting materials for Higher and Further educational establishments and JISC funded projects to support their engagement with IPR and licensing with digital content, digital media, data and innovative technologies. In addition, the JISC has developed an IP Policy clarifying its position regarding the ownership of IP created by JISC Projects and Services, the roles and responsibilities of JISC funded projects regarding IPR and licensing as well as JISC’s position on Creative Commons Licences. 

JISC policy and IPR support to projects

• JISC IP Policy
• Project planning: Intellectual property 
• Working with programmes: Intellectual property 
• Beginner's Guide to IPR (PDF)
• Legal lessons learnt: IPR and repositories 

 

Podcasts
'In from the cold', A report on orphaned works (Duration 11:47)
IPR for the SCA (Duration: 9.44)
JISC IPR consultants address issues and challenges facing web 2.0 users within education (Duration: 13.38)

 

JISC funded IPR related activities and projects

• Strategic Content Alliance IPR and licensing toolkit
• Web 2.0 and Intellectual Property Rights
• TrustDR
• Open educational resources IPR support

 

JISC services offering IPR and licensing support

• JISC Legal
• OSS Watch
• JISC Digital Media
• JISC InfoNet infoKit

 

General IPR and licensing support to HE and FE

• JISC Scholarly Communications
• Study into Creative Commons Licences in HE/FE (PDF)

 

JISC IPR consultancy 

The consultancy provide input to the JISC Innovation Group on a range of issues around programme management and IPR issues within FE and HE.

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IPR consultancy papers
Other types of IPR and their impact on JISC projects (PDF)
IPR and licensing issues in derived data (PDF)
Web2.0 and IPR (PDF)
IPR issues and software: Briefing document (PDF)
Creative Commons briefing paper
IPR policy response
Copyright tribunal consultation July 2009 (PDF)
Creative content (PDF)
JISC comments on the future (PDF)
JISC comments on the EC Green Paper (PDF)
JISC Gowers response (PDF)
JISC response to a Digital Rights Agency (PDF)
Moral rights (PDF)
Proposed extension to the duration of copyright term for sound recordings and performers (PDF)
WIPO questionnaire (PDF)

 

Find out more about the JISC IPR Consultancy