Copyright Licensing Agency licence

What does it cover?

The current licence covers print to paper copying and digitisation of print materials to be held in Weblearn.

Short term, full cost courses are not covered by the licence unless certain conditions are met and neither, under the terms of the EU Copyright Directive, is commercial copying.

Up to date lists of which publishers are covered by the licence can be found on the CLA website Participating publishers - Higher Education.
Some material is excluded altogether, see Excluded categories and excluded works.

The University must own an original copy or a copyright fee paid copy - scanning a lecturer's personally owned original is not covered. It must be the most recent version of the publication.

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How much is permitted?

The amount permitted to be copied is restricted to whichever is the greater of:

• 5% or one chapter of a book
• 5% or one article of a journal
• 5% or one paper of one set of conference proceedings
• 5% or one law report
• 5% of an anthology of short stories or poems or one short story or one poem of not more than 10 pages

You cannot scan two chapters from the same book for one module, even if you only put each of them in Weblearn at a different time in the module.

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• Works published outside the countries listed in "What does it cover"
• Printed music (including the words)
• Maps, charts, books of tables
• Public examination papers
• Workbooks, work cards, assignment sheets
• Privately prepared teaching material restricted to fee paying individuals
• Bibles, liturgical works, orders of service
• Newspapers
• Industrial house journals
• Separate illustrations, photographs, diagrams
• Any work on which the copyright owner has expressly stipulated that it may not be copied under this licence

Further details of excluded materials can be obtained from the CLA’s Excluded Categories/Works list

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