Copyright: Written/ Literary works

Our newspaper license covers occasional copying and printing of newspapers.

 The newspapers covered by this are:

• Financial Times
• The Times *
• The Guardian *
• The Economist
• The Times Educational Supplement
• The Times Higher Educational Supplement
• The Times Literary Supplement
• Doncaster Free Press
• Yorkshire Post
• The Star (Doncaster edition)

* The license includes these newspaper websites

The Guardian newspaper

The Times newspaper

Copying, printing and scanning still images and text. 

This includes multiple copying for class handouts.  Not all books and journals are covered by the license.  Look at the CLA document search webpage for more details.

• scanned and digital documents need to be located on a secure digital environment e.g. college e-mail or Blackboard
• Copying can be up to a chapter in a book, one journal article or 5%
• For online materials you can only copy a comparable amount of information

Always record the author of the book or journal

In the small print

• Only copy the right number of copies for the number of students
• The college needs to own a copy of any books or journals scanned
• It would be a breach of the licence to slowly copy the whole of a document
• Digital copies need to be in a secure environment e.g. Blackboard or college e-mail
• Delete documents when no longer required.  You will need to check on this at the end of every academic year. 
• Materials should only be scanned if there is not a legal digital copy available

Not everything is covered by the CLA license. 

These categories are not included

• Newspapers
• Printed Music
• Maps
• Hymns
• Workbooks, workcards or assignment sheets 

Please refer to the CLA website for more information.

When information is online you can link to it.  Your students can then read it online.  Discover what is available online from the LRC

LRC webpages

For instruction/ teaching 1% can be copied over a 3 month period.  In June this will change to 5% per calendar year.