http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:46:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I'd better report in from Online Educa in Berlin, where the Web2Rights team have been presenting the IPR toolkit and showing the just released Web2Rights video. It's been a busy week for publicity, the Guardian published a full page article about the Web2Rights project in it's Digital Student ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=20 The Web2Rights team will be holding a Web2.0 and Legal Issues Workshop at Birbeck College, London on the 13th October for projects funded by the JISC funded Users and Innovation Progamme. In order to help us to scope out some of the broader legal issues that projects have/or may be encountering we would be most ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=19 We are thrilled that the Web2Rights project has just been extended for a further 9 months (running until end of March 2008). During this time, we will be enhancing our current IPR toolkit as well as creating a legal toolkit. The legal toolkit will address other legal issues arising from interaction with ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=18 After an enormous amount of team effort, we are really proud that our IP Toolkit went live on our website today. There are several ways of working with the IP resources that we have created including:  1) Downloading each resource as required 2) Downloading zipped packages 3) Using our IP flowchart to find out what is ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=17 With a month to go, we've put together a dynamic programme for the second of our Web2.0 and IP Focus Group Meeting which will be held in Leeds on Monday 7 April. The meeting is open to  projects currently funded under JISC's User and Innovation Programme who are engaging with next generation technologies. The intentions of ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=16 We are gearing up for the launch of our interactive graphics to help navigate around the world of identification of rights, and then the management of them/dealing with permissions. This innovative funcationality will overlay the IP tools that we have been merrily creating over the last few months that are ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=15 We are extremely pleased to let you know that the next Web2.0 and IP focus group will be taking place on Monday 7th April in Leeds (at the Old School Board). The meeting will run from 11:00 - 15:00 and is open primarly to JISC funded projects under the U&I ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=14 Its last thing on a Friday afternoon and...you can't settle because you really want to know about the relationship between contracts and copyright. This is actually pretty important stuff because contract law can be used to over-ride copyright law. What this means is that if a third party gives you permission to use their "stuff", ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=13 I've been looking recently at the terms of use Blackboard Scholar to see whether it really is a good thing or not. Its all a bit worrying really because its all a bit restrictive and to put it mildly, the use of BB Scholar means that projects are restricted in: 1) Their ability to ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=12 We just come back from the EMERGE and U&I project Start Up Meeting in York. We’ve been amazed by the variety of projects funded - a massive range of the great and good. So what did we get up to? We launched phase one of our project website www.web2rights.org.uk Charlotte and Naomi ran a ... http://www.web2rights.org.uk/blog/?p=9