“The prospects for quick European approval of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement dimmed Wednesday as the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, announced plans to seek an opinion from the European Court of Justice about ACTA’s constitutionality …” (more)
[Timothy B Lee, Ars Technica, 22 February]
“The governing bodies of UCC and CIT are to be asked to attend the next meeting of Cork City’s Joint Policing Committee to answer allegations that they are not doing enough to counter the drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour of their students …” (more)
[Sean O’Riordan, Irish Examiner, 21 February]
“Under a new deal signed by the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, the act of emailing a link will be classed as equivalent to photocopying, and each student and faculty member will cost the universities $27.50/year for this right that the law gives them for free …” (more)
[Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, 20 February]
“The High Court will this week consider whether to order a reversal of changes to the student grant system imposed in the 2011 Budget – hearing from students who claim the changes have forced them out of college …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 20 February]
“The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged …” (more)
[Independent, 20 February]
“Following the news recently it would seem that the UK is convulsed by a raging battle between religious observers and, in the words of Baroness Warsi, militant secularists. On the same day, the High Court ruled that Christian prayers held before a council meeting were unlawful …” (more)
[Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog, 19 February]
“Schools would no longer be allowed to discriminate against gay, lesbian and bisexual teachers under new legislation published today (19th February) by Fianna Fáil’s Seanad Spokesperson on Education and Skills, Senator Averil Power …” (more)
[Fianna Fáil, 19 February]
“… The universities of Western Ontario and Toronto have signed a deal with Access Copyright that allows for surveillance of faculty correspondence, defines e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document, and imposes an annual $27.50 fee for every full-time equivalent student to pay for it all …” (more)
[Slashdot, 18 February]
“University College Cork has lost its legal challenge to a Labour Court order requiring it to pay a former full-time researcher, who was employed on a fixed term contract, an ex gratia redundancy payment in addition to her statutory redundancy entitlement …” (more)
[Mary Carolan, Irish Times, 18 February]
“University College Cork has lost its legal challenge to a Labour Court order, requiring it to pay a former full-time researcher on a fixed-term contract, an ex gratia redundancy payment in addition to her statutory redundancy entitlement …” (more)
[Ann O’Loughlin, Irish Examiner, 18 February]
“The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has warmly welcomed a High Court decision regarding redundancy payments for fixed-term workers in universities. In the High Court on 17 February, Mr Justice Kearns rejected an appeal by University College Cork (UCC) against an earlier Labour Court Determination …” (more)
[Irish Federation of University Teachers, 17 February]
“The High Court has rejected an appeal from University College Court over the terms of a lecturer’s redundancy package. The lecturer, who had come to the end of her fixed-term contract, has been awarded six weeks’ pay for every year of employment at the university by the Labour Court …” (more)
[Business Post, 17 February]
“University College Cork has lost an appeal to the High Court in a case dealing how staff on fixed-term contracts are treated. In a ruling issued this morning, the High Court upheld a Labour Court decision to direct the college to make an ex-gratia payment to a fixed-term worker who had been made redundant …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 17 February]
“Two teenagers who took the government to the high court claiming that the near-trebling of tuition fees this year breached their human rights have lost their case …” (more)
[Jessica Shepherd, Guardian, 17 February]
“The Irish Federation of University Teachers IFUT has welcomed a new report recommending all third-level colleges in Scotland to ‘adopt and incorporate the definition of Academic Freedom which is contained in Ireland’s Universities Act, 1997′ …” (more)
[Irish Federation of University Teachers, 16 February]
“The Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock said he ‘welcomed’ a decision from the European Court of Justice which ruled that social networks cannot be obliged to install a filter for user-generated content to prevent copyright infringement, saying it will guide Irish courts when looking into similar matters …” (more)
[Laura O'Brien, Silicon Republic, 16 February]
“The European Court of Justice has ruled that web hosting companies and services cannot be ordered to install filtering software monitoring uploaded content for potential copyright infringement …” (more)
[Business ETC, 16 February]
“The courthouse in L’Aquila, Italy, yesterday hosted the most anticipated hearing in the trial of six seismologists and one government official indicted for manslaughter over their reassurances to the public ahead of a deadly earthquake in 2009 …” (more)
[Brian Owens, Nature News Blog, 16 February]
“The decision by the European Court of Justice that an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system to prevent copyright infringement has been welcomed by Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock …” (more)
[Business Post, 16 February]
“On Tuesday, Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum suggested that we don’t have effective copyright enforcement on the Internet because we just haven’t tried hard enough …” (more)
[Timothy B Lee, Ars Technica, 15 February]
