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EditImplications of the Copyright Tribunal 2001
In September 2001 Universities UK brought an action against the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) before the Copyright Tribunal over the terms of the CLA’s Higher Education Copyright Licence. The Tribunal issued a judgement on 13th December which largely accepted Universities UK’s case but increased the fee by a modest amount. Its main points were:
• The royalty fee charged to higher education institutions for photocopying is now based on the number of full time equivalent students (FTES). This fee was set at £4.00 per FTES with effect from 1st August 2001 and is increased in line with the retail price index on an annual basis on 1st August each year.
• To bring course pack copying into the terms of the blanket licence and to fix a fee for that. in 2001 the fee was a notional £1.20 per FTE, which was 30% of the total fee per FTE. The course pack element of the fee is still calculated as 30% of the total HE licence fee.
• The amounts that can be copied and distributed under the terms of the Licence were set to remain at 1 chapter or 5% of a book, 1 article or paper from a periodical part or set of conference proceedings and 1 case from a law report.
• To remove the exclusion of separate artistic works from the licence
You can read a fuller explanation of the outcome on the
UCL Library website