Copyright Notice

Every digital copy made for Course Users under the CLA Higher Education Licence must include some kind of Copyright Notice.

If you are a CLA Education Licensee you don't have to include a Copyright Notice, but may wish to do so anyway to ensure compliance.

CLA’s Copyright Notice (sometimes referred to as a coversheet) is set out in a Schedule to the CLA Higher Education Licence terms and conditions, and ensures all the relevant credits are listed as well as including clear information regarding Licence compliance for staff and students.

If a digital copy already incorporates a publisher’s copyright notice, that includes the title, creator and publisher of the work, you don’t have to add a further copyright notice – unless you want to do so to help ensure Licence compliance (e.g. to advise non course users that they shouldn’t download or print out where there is no technical means to stop them doing to).

Sometimes, it might be impractical to display the full text of CLA’s Copyright Notice – e.g. within the main body of a Powerpoint presentation. In these cases, you can use an abbreviated form, e.g. ‘Copied under CLA Licence – please refer to the full Copyright Notice’, so long as the full Copyright Notice is available elsewhere.

Schedule 2 from the CLA Higher Education Licence terms and conditions:

Copyright Notice
Staff and students of this [University] [Institution] are reminded that copyright subsists in this extract and the work from which it was taken.

This Digital Copy has been made under the terms of a CLA licence which allows you to:

• access and download a copy;
• print out a copy;

This Digital Copy and any digital or printed copy supplied to or made by you under the terms of this Licence are for use in connection with this Course of Study. You may retain such copies after the end of the course, but strictly for your own personal use.

All copies (including electronic copies) shall include this Copyright Notice and shall be destroyed and/or deleted if and when required by [Institution].

Except as provided for by copyright law, no further copying, storage or distribution (including by e-mail) is permitted without the consent of the copyright holder.

The author (which term includes artists and other visual creators) has moral rights in the work and neither staff nor students may cause, or permit, the distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work, or any other derogatory treatment of it, which would be prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author.

Course of Study:
Title:
Name of Author:
Name of Publisher:

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.