CLA Photocopying and Scanning Higher Education Licence

Queen Margaret University holds a licence with The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA) that permits the photocopying and scanning of limited extracts from printed books, journals, and magazines.

The proportion of a work that may be photocopied and/or scanned consists of:

• one whole chapter from a book
• one whole article from a journal issue
• a short story or poem (not exceeding 10 pages in length) from an anthology
• one whole paper from a set of conference proceedings
• one whole report of a single case from a volume of judicial proceedings

or 5% of any of the above, whichever is the greater.

Multiple photocopies and Digital copies should be distributed to students and staff with strict reference to a specific Course of Study; a Course of Study refers to any segment of a student’s programme of study which, for the purpose of examination and/or assessment, is a discrete and self contained unit.

Photocopying

The material licensed for photocopying consists of books, journals, magazines and other periodicals published:

• in the United Kingdom and
• in the “International Territories” currently consisting of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States of America (this list is also published on the CLA website and is added to from time to time)

except those works listed in the ‘List of Excluded Categories and Works’ and those works published by publishers listed in the ‘List of Excluded US Publishers’.

Scanning

The preparation and distribution of Digital Copies must be authorised by a ‘Designated Person’, in QMU’s case the LRC Scanning Services.

Members of staff not specifically appointed as a Designated Person and students are not permitted to scan under this licence. If they should do so – and do not seek the written permission of the rightsowner – they may be putting themselves and QMU at risk of a claim for infringement of copyright law.

Please refer to the LRC Scanning Services webpage for more information about this.

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