Much of the copyright protected material used in courseware at UEA is covered by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) licence. This applies especially to books and periodicals published in the UK, much of Europe and Australasia, and South Africa. Many North American publishers are not covered. Copies of
are held by the copyright co-ordinator. They can also be seen on the CLA web site.
Copies of study packs should be clearly labelled on the cover and first page of text with the academic year in which they were created and carry a notice to the effect that they may not be copied or resold.
Material supplied in support of SHORT COURSES, the attendants at which are not registered UEA students, requires either separate licensing arrangements or explicit consent from the individual rights owners. Organisers of short courses should seek advice from the copyright co-ordinator before issuing course material.
The amount of copyright material that can be copied and distributed in HANDOUTS and STUDY PACKS under the CLA licence during any one course of study as follows:
the greater of
- 5% of any published edition
- one complete chapter of a book
- one article in an issue of a periodical or set of conference proceedings
- one poem or short story not exceeding 10 pages in length from a collection or anthology
- the report of a single case from a volume of published law reports.
The number of copies made should not exceed that needed to ensure that every student on the course and the teacher(s) of the course each have a single copy.
The CLA licence makes special provision for copying for the benefit of the partially-sighted. ENLARGED COPIES of part or all of a work covered by the licence may be copied, provided that a copy of the original publisher’s edition is owned by the University and generally available to students (in effect, is in the Library) and that a large print edition is not already available. Enlarged copies made under this dispensation are intended for personal use; in particular they may not be placed in the Library’s Short Loan collection, nor stored electronically.
The use of copyright material in digitised/networked courseware such as Blackboard is a complex area and much content is NOT covered by our existing CLA licence. If you wish to include such material within Blackboard, contact either your Faculty Librarian, or the copyright co-ordinator for advice and help.
