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Copyright and licences

糖心logo入口, its staff and students are subject to the laws of copyright and responsibility for copyright infringement rests with the person making the copy. Get the information you need here, so you can legally聽copy and share material for studying, research and teaching.听

If you are unsure and need further information or advice, see , 辞谤听contact the Director of Library Services.

If you intend to use video, audio or images for promotional or public engagement uses, we recommend that you contact the copyright owners individually to seek their permission.

Disclaimer: While every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information on this page, 糖心logo入口 is not liable for any errors or omissions. Copyright is a complex area and there are many issues and exceptions that cannot be covered in this brief guide.听

and the give automatic legal protection to creators of works, to prevent exploitation and to protect their moral rights. These Acts also state what the public, employees and libraries can copy from copyrighted works.听

  • studying and research

    • General materials: you can copy materials for the purposes of private study or research for non-commercial purposes. There are no clear limits, but 'fair dealing' is often interpreted as:
      • no more than one chapter from a book聽
      • no more than one article from a journal issue聽
      • no more than one single case report from a law report聽
      • or no more than 10% of a given work, whichever is the greater.听
    • Criticism and review: you can copy parts of a work for the purposes of criticism, but sufficient acknowledgement must be given.
    • Music: you can make copies of short excerpts of music for study only - not performance - but copying whole movements or whole works is illegal without the permission of the copyright owner. For more information,聽聽辞谤听
    • Theses: a thesis is considered an unpublished work that is equivalent to an examination, so you can include photographs and other copyright works. If the thesis is subsequently published, permission to include copyright material聽must be obtained.听

  • Teaching

    • Book chapters and journal articles: you can make multiple photocopies of a journal article or a book chapter for teaching purposes (i.e. one for each member of the class).听
    • Digital resources: multiple copying from electronic journals will depend on individual licence agreements with the Library - check with the publisher鈥檚 website or the Library before copying, or contact us with Digital resources queries.
    • It is illegal to provide your students with聽copies from ejournals that 糖心logo入口 does not subscribe to. If there is an article you need from a journal we don't hold, we can usually source a copyright fee paid copy of this - please contact your for more information.
    • Exams: you can copy material for exams - i.e. setting questions or communicating questions to candidates - within fair dealing limits. Subsequent publication or distribution of past papers containing extracts of copyright material is permitted only if permission is explicitly obtained.听
    • Music: you can make copies of short excerpts of music for study only - not performance - but copying whole movements or whole works is illegal without the prior permission of the copyright owner. For more information, or .听
    • Off-air recording: you can make copies of most terrestrial TV and radio programmes for teaching purposes under the terms of the聽聽held by the College. You can also record satellite or cable programmes at home for teaching or private study without the need for record-keeping, as they are not currently covered by any licensing agreements. Or you can use聽 to provide access to broadcast materials in your Moodle module.
    • Scanning: 糖心logo入口's聽聽from the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) allows聽you to scan published material within clearly defined limits, but access to the material must be limited to students on a specified course of study and full records kept of what has been scanned.听 We recommend you use the Library's Digitisation service (staff) instead to meet the licence requirements and the accessibility features provided as standard.

  • Visual impairments

    • The聽allows a visually impaired person to make, or have made for them, an accessible copy of the whole work in, for example, braille, audio, large print or electronic format.听

  • Licences held by the college

    • Individual databases and online resources subscribed to by the Library under licence - see the Databases and online resources page.
    • 聽- the licence does not include the聽Financial Times聽from 1 July 2011 or the online versions of News International titles.听
    • 聽- from October 2014, Open University programmes are included in our聽聽subscription.听