Recording and reporting what you have copied

It’s good practice to record the bibliographic details - author/artist and title - on the copy, and ideally the publisher and ISBN/ISSN or URL too.

This will help you keep track of your copying, and model good accreditation and referencing to students.

Beyond this, you don’t need to tell CLA what you copy, unless you are selected for a Data Collection Exercise. The exercises help us work out how to distribute our licence fees to authors, artists and publishers whose work has been copied.

If your institution is selected for an exercise, you’ll be notified well in advance, and talked through the process.

We thank you for all your efforts in advance - that valuable data helps us pay creators for the re-use of their work.

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.