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Copyright Guide

This guide will help you to find out how copyright affects your study, research and work here at the University of Derby. Please note that information on these pages is for guidance only: it should not be construed as formal legal advice.

Newspapers

 

The University has a licence with the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA). The NLA Education Establishment Licence covers the photocopying and scanning of all the major UK daily and Sunday newspapers (excluding the Financial Times), as well as some regional newspapers. 

This allows staff to distribute cuttings* of newspaper articles to 

  • students for educational and instructional purposes (no more than one copy made for each student and teacher)
  • staff for their internal use (within University of Derby)

*Cutting is defined as 

  • an article, report, artistic work (including for the avoidance of doubt photographs), advertisement or other item in an NLA Newspaper, or on an NLA Newspaper Website, or
  • a copy of the whole or part (including the headline) of such an article, report, artistic work or other item

The NLA Licence allows the licensee - meaning staff and students to:

  • Produce photocopies of Cuttings
  • Create Digital Cuttings by scanning from most of the NLA Titles (except the Financial Times) on the NLA UK & Foreign Newspaper List
  • Electronically copy and paste a Digital Cutting into an email or other document to staff for their internal use

  • Print a hard copy of a Digital Cutting

  • Circulate a Digital Cutting via the University's intranet - Blackboard

  • Include Cuttings in study packs

  • Project Cuttings by illumination onto a screen

Each Cutting should include the notice: “NLA licensed copy. No further copies may be made except under licence”

The NLA Licence does NOT allow 

  • creation of summaries of Cuttings; and
  • creation of a library or archive of Cuttings
  • copies for any person who is not a member of staff or student