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Copying Limits
Hardcopy
The Statutory Text and Artistic Licence permits an educational institution to reproduce:
- an article in an issue of a periodical (such as a journal, newspaper, magazine)
- more than one article in a periodical if the article is on the same subject
- a literary work of no more than 15 pages are published in an anthology
- a reasonable portion of a print work in hard copy, (10 % of or one chapter of a print work).
- the whole of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work that has not been separately published (including unpublished works)
- the whole of the work is not available in either hard copy or electronic form within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price
- the whole of a published edition where the underlying work is out of copyright.
Under the Statutory Text and Artistic Licence (Electronic Use Scheme) educational institutions may reproduce and communicate:
- 10% of the words of an electronic work
- the whole of a literary, dramatic or musical work which has not been separately published (including unpublished works such as conference paper or research paper on disk that are not available to the public)•
- the whole of a literary, dramatic or musical work that is not available in electronic form within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price
- the work is an artistic work.
See Education Licence B: Statutory Text and Artistic Licence for further information
