The Copyright Licensing Agency is the largest licensing body in the UK.  The University has a Photocopying and Scanning Licence from the CLA which allows the making of multiple copies from printed books and journals for teaching purposes.  The limits on the extent to which any work may be copied are:

• one chapter of a book
• one article from a journal issue or set of conference proceedings
• one short story or poem of not more than 10 pages from an anthology
• one law case from a volume of judicial proceedings

or 5% of a given work, whichever is the greater.

Exclusions

Please note that not all categories of material, all countries or all publishers are covered: nor does the licence cover students based at an overseas campus such as SII-DUFE.  See the CLA website for details of the licence and a full list of excluded works.

The licence permits the making of multiple photocopies for distribution to students: you may make sufficient copies for each student enrolled on a course of study, plus one for the teacher.  The licence also permits the scanning of printed materials for distribution to students; this may be done via a virtual learning environment such as SurreyLearn or via email, memory stick or CD.  For further details of what can be copied, how it can be made available and how the copies are reported see Scanning and Copying for Courses.