What is a copyright fee-paid copy?

If your HEI, college or school doesn’t own or subscribe to the source publication, you can purchase a copyright fee-paid copy of the relevant extract and then use this as a source copy under the Licence.

Copyright fee paid copies are available from organisations that hold licences enabling them to do this – for example the British Library, which is the largest document supplier in the UK and offers this option as part of the joint CLA / British Library Enhanced Higher Education Scanning Service (EHESS). EHESS and EFESS are available for HEIs and Further Education colleges.

• The copyright fee that your organisation pays is passed on to the relevant publisher; once you’ve purchased a copyright fee paid copy, you can treat it in the same way as you would a publication that you’d purchased in the traditional sense.
• All the usual Licence terms and conditions apply to copyright fee-paid copies. Remember in particular that if you’ve already copied up the permitted extent limit of a publication for a specific course or other purpose, acquiring a copyright fee paid copy doesn’t allow you to make a further copies available for that same course or purpose, unless you obtain permission from the copyright owner or publisher to share more. (If you are an HEI, you may wish to consider the Second Extract Permissions Service.)
• If you purchase a copyright fee-paid copy to make and share copies under the CLA Education Licences, please check first that the publication is covered for copying under the CLA repertoire. Not all content available via EHESS is covered for scanning and not everything that is covered under the CLA Education Licences is available to order via EHESS. This is due to different licensing arrangements publishers have with the British Library and the CLA.

This text is intended for use as guidance only and not as a substitute for the CLA Licence terms themselves, which should be read in full. In the event of conflict between the two, the Licence shall prevail. For permissions not listed above, please contact the publisher direct.