Moral rights and adaptation of extracts (integrity)

Moral rights

Moral rights are enshrined in copyright law, and include the following on behalf of authors and visual creators:

• the right to be identified as the author (or visual creator) of a work;
• the right not to have their work misrepresented;
• the right not to have a work that they did not create falsely accredited to them;
• the right to object to derogatory treatment of their work.

Adaptation of extracts

You can adapt extracts (e.g. shorten/annotate them), but any adaptation must be entirely for pedagogical purposes and not detrimental to the moral rights of the author and/or visual creator. No other alteration or manipulation is permitted.

Please note the following:

• Adaptations should include an indication that the extract has been altered – e.g., for an English Literature course, ‘Please review this extract which has been adapted from [Title] by [Author]’.
• You can abbreviate or shorten the text of an extract, provided any omissions are clearly marked and don’t affect the meaning or sense of the text in any way that might affect the author’s moral rights. For example, you can blank out parts of a text, or translate some of the words from/into English or another language, for the purposes of asking students questions about it.
• You can add annotations to copies, e.g. in the form of a commentary, and annotate an image by adding some narrative text/commentary. 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.

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.