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Legal Aspects of Web 2.0 and Social
Networking
26 Feb 2010
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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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www.web2rights.org.uk
www.jisclegal.ac.uk
www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Newsletter.aspx
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