Copyright is the name for the form of legal protection that applies to "writing and literary works, art, photography, films, TV, music, web content, sound recordings".
Copyright applies automatically to all such works as soon as they are created. Generally, copyright lasts for seventy years after the death of the creator. At that point, the creator's works enter the public domain, and copyright no longer applies.
It is a criminal offence to reproduce works under copyright protection without permission. However, there are some exceptions that permit limited reproduction of a work for education purposes. This guide explains what you can and cannot legally do when copying resources. It is important to note that both you as an individual and the College can be held responsible and subject to prosecution if copyright laws are ignored.
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Complying with copyright regulations is not as difficult as you may imagine. NPTC Group of Colleges is covered by
the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Further Education Licence.
This allows you to copy, scan or print up to:
NPTC Group of Colleges must own a copy of the the material that you wish to reproduce. This includes resources held in the library or purchased for use in your department. You cannot make and circulate copies of books and resources from your personal library. Use the Library Catalogue to find out if a book, journal, or other work is held in any of the college libraries.
The copying allowance rule is applied per class or module. If you share a class with another tutor, you cannot each copy two separate extracts from the same work.
Once you ha
ve checked that you are allowed to copy an extract from a particular published work, you can go ahead and photocopy it, scan it, or print it. You can make enough printed copies for each member of your class.
Digital copies may be uploaded to a secure, password protected platform such as NPTC Moodle, Sharepoint or Microsoft Teams that can only be accessed by college staff and students via institutional login.
Digital copies must not be published on any publicly accessible website or on social media.
You can copy up to 5% of:
You cannot copy:
The NPTC's Licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency gives permission to staff and students to make print or digital copies of extracts of a wide range of published texts. However, some resources, such as certain books published in the USA, are excluded from the Further Education Licence.
To find out if the work you wish to copy from is included in the Licence, use the Check Permissions tool.
Need more help with copyright questions or would like to arrange a chat with a library adviser? Click to Ask A Librarian or e-mail us: libraries@nptcgroup.ac.uk.
