Copying Images under the CLA Licences

Images

Text and still images from most printed books, journals and magazines published in the
UK and many published overseas, plus many digital publications. You can check whether
a publication is covered by using the Check Permissions tool on our website.

You can copy images (including book covers) from publications that are covered by the Licence, by:

• preparing a copy of a whole-page visual
  image; or
• extracting a part-page visual image, from a page that may also include text and other images (this process is often referred to as ‘disembedding’). Some exceptions to copyright law do exist, and you might want to familiarise yourself with how these affect the educational use of images.
• When adding annotations to copies, e.g. in the form of a commentary, you can annotate an image by adding some narrative text / commentary. As outlined above, you can produce a copy of an image stripped of its accompanying text. You can also synchronise text and/or images otherwise separated by the layout of the source.

Contact your copyright advisor or visit: www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-tocopyright

If your institution has a CLA Higher Education Licence, digital copies of, or which include, images made under the Licence should be reported to us in the usual way (see ‘Royalties Data Collection’ ; however, remember that CLA does not require HEIs to report the copying of individual disembedded images where this use is covered by the Licence terms rather than an exception. Please also bear in mind that digital copies of book covers do not need to be reported.

This guidance is provided for guidance only. Please note that it does not substitute for the terms and conditions of the Licence, and that, in the event of a conflict between the two, the Licence prevails.