Copyright is designed to allow creators to gain financial rewards for their efforts, thus encouraging creativity in the future.
Copyright is granted automatically to anything that is written, published, recorded, produced or performed in any form for a specified time period. Copyright covers both printed and electronic material.
In the UK copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended. For more information view The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1998
Please bear in mind that the terms and conditions of the Higher Education Licence differ from the Further Education Licence.
For further clarification on any CLA issue, please contact either your local college librarian, or the UHI CLA HE Licence Coordinator.
You can copy the text and images from most U.K. printed books and digital publications, and also many from overseas.
The CLA has a very useful Check Permissions tool on its website.
Remember UHI must own a copy of the work that you are copying. You can check the UHI Library Catalogue here
If we do not have an institutional copy, it may be possible to buy the book to enable you to use a compliant copy. Please contact cla@uhi.ac.uk
The work is owned by the University and the amount used falls into one of the following:
• A whole article from a magazine/journal issue
• A short story, poem or play (not exceeding 10 pages in length) from an anthology
• A whole chapter from a book whole scene from a play
• A whole paper from a set of conference proceedings
• A whole report of a single case from a volume of judicial proceedings
OR
5% of the whole publication. Whichever is greater.
The work is owned by the University and the amount used falls into one of the following:
• A whole article from a magazine/journal issue
• A short story, poem or play (not exceeding 10 pages in length) from an anthology
• A whole chapter from a book whole scene from a play
• A whole paper from a set of conference proceedings
• A whole report of a single case from a volume of judicial proceedings
OR
10% of the whole publication. Whichever is greater.
There are some published works that the CLA licence does not cover. These include:
In addition to these are works which are directly excluded by the author
The CLA provide a list of these works, which can be accessed here
Books, letters, journal articles, photos, pictures, images, graphs and tables
70 years after death of author.
"Wall of Books" by benuski is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Feature films, animated films, home movies.
70 years after the end of the year in which the last of the principal director, author of dialogue, composer of music or author of screenplay dies.
TV programmes, online seminars as aired and podcasts
50 years from the end of the year in which the broadcast was made.
Songs, performances, pieces of music, speeches and any recorded sounds.
70 years from the end of the year in which the recording was made
“Fair dealing” is an exception that allows limited use of copyrighted materials without permission for the purposes including:
The extract can only be used for:
Remember the extract must not:
Please note: In the UK, fair dealing is more restrictive than in the USA, so care should be taken when following copyright advice on websites or publications. Fair dealing is not justification for uploading large sections of content to the VLE or distributing to your students via email etc.
