UK Copyright - What Can I Copy?

Copyright - Keeping Things Legal

Here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, we have a CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) Higher Education Licence.  It allows you certain concessions as a student or staff member in a UK Higher Education establishment.  This document tells you what you're allowed to do:-

CLA Notice for Display

If you've never really thought about copyright before, or if you're from another country, you might find things are different to what you expected, so here's the UKCS (UK Copyright Service) summary of UK Copyright Law, which you might find it helpful:- 

Fact sheet P-01: UK Copyright Law

What Can a Student Legally Copy?

This advice is an extract from the latest Copyright Licensing Agency poster, which summarises exactly what's okay to copy, and what's not:-

This institution holds a licence with The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA) that, subject to terms and conditions, permits the copying and re-use of extracts of text and still images from printed books, journals and magazines, and from digital publications including some free-to-view and subscription websites. You can find the full terms and conditions of the Licence at he.cla.co.uk

Read the poster here for the quick summary!

We at the Whittaker Library are keen to help our performing and production artists stay the right side of the law.  We encourage our readers to ask us if they need clarification about what's allowed.  If we don't know, we'll find out for you!