Copyright – ‘Fair Dealing’ Guidelines
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) (CDPA) gives legal protection to creators of original material against unauthorised exploitation of their work. If a work is protected by copyright it may not be copied without the permission of the copyright owner. However, the Act includes certain provisions which allow copying without prior permission. One of these provisions is known as ‘fair dealing’.

 For details of how much you can copy click:

 http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/resources/guides/copyright/inf036.pdf

 Copyright Licencing Agency (CLA)
The University holds a CLA Photocopying and Scanning Licence that allows students and staff of the University to photocopy and scan limited extracts of books and journals.

A link to the basic license is below:
http://www.cla.co.uk/UUK/basic_he_licence

 See Notice of use, English: http://www.cla.co.uk/data/pdfs/he/he_basic_lic_notice_for_display.pdf

 See Notice of use, Welsh:
http://www.cla.co.uk/data/pdfs/he/he_notice_for_display_basic_welsh.pdf

 Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA)
The University holds a NLA licence that allows students and staff of the University to photocopy articles from a range of UK newspapers. It does not cover the photocopying of images or advertisements.
http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/resources/guides/copyright/inf005.pdf

 Education Recording Agency (ERA)
The University holds an ERA Plus (ERA+) licence that allows students and staff of the University to make recordings of programmes broadcast in the UK for non-commercial education purposes: further it allows us to access streamed recordings off campus. It does not allow us to record Open University programmes. For ERA+ FAQs click: http://www.era.org.uk/FAQ.html