Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) Agreement
The University has recently signed an agreement with the Newspaper Licensing Agency which allows photocopying from newspapers participating in the scheme. National newspapers participating are:
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You can check the full list of participating regional and international publications at http://www.nla.co.uk.
Under the NLA licence, students and staff are permitted to make photocopies of articles on an ad hoc basis. Photocopies must be made onto plain paper, although for teaching purposes it is permissible to create OHPs from copies.
The licence does not cover downloading articles from newspapers published electronically (for instance from the web) or digitising information for further distribution. However, if material is to be used for the sole purpose of instruction in the art of alternative page layout as part of a media studies course, a page of a newspaper may be electronically scanned or reproduced.
Photocopying of all of the individual articles on a page is permitted, but, perhaps surprisingly, copying photographs and advertisements is not.
It is not permitted to photocopy an entire newspaper.
All photocopies taken under the Newspaper Licensing Agency agreement must be endorsed with a notice in lettering no smaller than 6pt in the following terms:
With permission, copied from (title of the relevant newspaper) dated……….
