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Licensing

The CLA authorises photocopying and scanning from magazines, books and journals published in the UK plus mandated territories overseas, except those titles that appear on the List of Excluded Works. The licences also allow scanning from UK publications.

The CLA licenses on behalf of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and the Publishers Licensing Society and has an agency agreement with the Design and Artists Copyright Society, as well as various reproduction rights organisations overseas. (see list on Rights Organisations) page

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Sample Licences

Here you can see examples of the different kinds of licences that are given to various licensees. Each is a pdf that opens in a new window. While some, especially business licences, are negotiated individually, these are the standard terms for most. You can see the full range of licences and/or licence detail on the CLA website

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Schools

CLA grants licences to schools enabling them to make photocopies of or otherwise reproduce extracts from published copyright-protected material. It licenses all schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, i.e. State and Independent schools, Special, Pupil Referral Units, Resource Centres, and Independent Language schools. See numbers of licensed schools.
Schools Licence information
Standard agreement with all state schools, independent schools and language shools

Further Education Licence
For sixth form colleges, FE colleges and vocational training centres

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Universities

There are currently two CLA Licences for Higher Education Institutions:
• photocopy and scanning licence - only allows copying from print publications. Digitised material may be placed in a secure intranet for students on a particular course of study only.
• photocopy, scanning and digital licence – permits copying of print and digital material. Digital material may be copied to the same extent limits as print material, and for the same uses
For numbers and prices of each see Licensees page.

Higher Education Information


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Business Licence

The CLA Business Licence is a blanket licence issued to all types of businesses in the UK except pharmaceutical organisations and law firms, for which specific licences are administered.

for numbers and costs of licences see Licensees page.
CLA Business area

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Press Cuttings Agency Licence

The Press Cuttings Agency licence is an optional licence for publishers which allows press cuttings agencies (PCAs) to deliver clippings to their customers. The PCA must subscribe to a publication before they can supply clippings from that publication. Clippings can be delivered to one person only within the client organisation. The PCA client must have permission from the rightsowner, or subscribe to their own CLA copy licence, if they wish to on-copy/circulate these clippings to colleagues. PCAs pay CLA 8p per clipping, and distributions to rightsholders are based on CLA surveys. For the terms of the full licence, please click here CLA Press Cuttings Agency licence

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Government

Public Administration Licence
for central government departments, local authorities and public bodies

NHS Licence Information
CLA has agreed with NHS Connection for Health (CfH), a central licence for the NHS in England which runs until 31 March 2008.
The NHS pays one single central licence fee to CLA to cover all entities within the NHS in England for photocopying and scanning activities. Copies made under the licence can be exchanged between trusts.
A similar agreement has been made with the NHS of Scotland and Wales, and of Northern Ireland. For details of each one, see the CLA website's NHS section.

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Document Supply Organisations

Sticker Scheme
For walk-in users at public libraries.

Low Volume Document Delivery Licence
This is a blanket licence designed for organisations such as learned societies, professional bodies and membership organisations that provide a document delivery service on a small scale to its members or other clients.

Transactional Document Delivery Licence (incl. the British Library Document Delivery Licence)
This is an annual transactional licence for organisations supplying more than 1200 commercial copies per annum. Licensees need to keep full records of each copy supplied, including IS number, title, author, publisher, number of copies supplied, and country supplied. This is reported to CLA on a quarterly basis.

Last Updated IF 16/07/2010