Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 and Social

Networking

26 Feb 2010

Hello!• Jackie Milne

JISC Legal Service

• jackie.milne@jisclegal.ac.uk

• 0141 548 4939

• www.jisclegal.ac.uk

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What is Web 2.0?

• Learner/user generated content

• New technologies –innovation,

creation, communication and

collaboration

• Internal and external tools – e.g.

myspace, facebook, youtube, wikis,

delicious, pageflakes, blogger, Twitter

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Sign of the Times

A growing trend of social network services (SNS)" is the "shift from "Web 2.0 for fun" to Web 2.0 for productivity and services"

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WHERE are the legal issues?

• Hosting Web 2.0 tools

• Using others’ Web 2.0 tools

• Asking users to use Web 2.0 tools

• Staff using Web 2.0 tools

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The Usual Suspects

• Intellectual property law

• Accessibility law

• Liability issues

• Data protection issues

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Some typical questions

• What rights do I have when I contribute to a wiki?

• Can we collect personal data for marketing or advertising purposes?

• What about YouTube?

• How do we minimise liability?

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Some typical questions

• Can we be liable for what staff put

up on social networking sites?

• Can we be liable for what students

put up on social networking sites?

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JISC Legal Web 2.0 Toolkit

• What about social networking tools for disabled users?

• What can we do if a student puts up risky video about the college/library?

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Law Playing Catch Up

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• Blogging (anonymity)

• Defamation (actual knowledge)

• Cyberbullying (Houghton)

• Harassment (legislation)

• Equality Act

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