Faculty of Education: Copyright Guidance
POLICY G002
Policy Date: July 2010
All staff and students are required to comply with the following guidelines.
The following extracts from the Licence, User Guidelines and supporting material provided by the CLA on its website at www.cla.co.uk/have_licence/he/he_support.html outline the terms under
which the photocopying of copyright materials may be undertaken.
The Licence permits the copying of extracts (whether the pages copied consist of text or graphics or are a combination of text and graphics) from most books, journals and periodicals published in the UK, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and by some publishers in the United States (list of participating US publishers available at www.cla.co.uk/have_licence/support/uspublishers.html), with the specific exception of those belonging to one of the categories of material defined in the next section.
The basic permission to photocopy extends to the copying (from paper to paper) of:
- up to 5% or one complete chapter (whichever is the greater) from a book;
- up to 5% or one whole article (whichever is the greater) from a single issue of a journal;
- up to 5% or one paper (whichever is the greater) from a set of conference proceedings;
- up to 5% of an anthology of short stories or poems or one short story or one poem of not more than 10 pages (whichever is greater);
- up to 5% or one single case (whichever is greater) from a published report of judicial proceedings.
The Licence does not cover:
- printed music (including the words);
- maps, charts, or books of tables;
- public examination papers;
- workbooks, work cards and assignments;
- private documents (fee based tuition);
- works published by non-participating US publishers;
- newspapers;
- industrial house journals;
- ‘copying not allowed under the CLA licence’ titles;
- works included on the ‘CLA Excluded Works’ list (see www.cla.co.uk/have_licence/support/excluded.html );
- works published outside the above-noted countries;
- unpublished material.
Any doubts concerning the copying or use of certain copyright materials by students or staff should be raised before proceeding with the University Library where appropriate or the University’s Copyright Officer at ted.krawec@rsd.ac.uk; tel.: (3)33543. Further, students and staff are
advised to consult the University’s Information Technology Syndicate’s web pages at www.cam.ac.uk/cs/itsyndicate on rules and guidelines governing the use and misuse of the University’s computing facilities. These pages also include recent materials on copyright, computing and internet issues.
Review Date: July 2011
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