Copyright Law in Ireland has changed and in line with that ICLA is able to license schools with a brand-new set of terms and conditions well suited to blended learning, starting in September 2020.
As universities face a long-term move to a mix of campus and distance learning, the new ICLA Licence enables the creation and distribution of digital and printed materials for students based on copyright works that are available to your HEI.
Copying text and still images for educational use
In Ireland, books, magazines, journals, digital publications and websites are protected by Irish copyright law, and that law applies to everyone. So when a teacher wants to provide copies of content from a website or a book or magazine for their students, they need permission to do so; that permission is granted for up to 10%/one chapter/one article, or the online equivalent, by an ICLA Higher Education Licence.
Your Licence

Terms & Conditions of the HE licence (S.I. No. 277 of 2020)
Excluded Works List – works which are not subject to the blanket licence and therefore should not be reproduced without explicit permission from the right holder.
Increase in extent limit
If your institution is using either the Digital Content Store or Talis Aspire, you will be able to avail of a further temporary extension to the licence terms until July 2021. The extent limit for copying from print books is increased so institutions can copy up to 20% or 2 chapters, whichever is the greater, instead of the current 10%. This applies to books published by participating publishers only (140 opt-ins).
Important conditions apply:
- This amendment applies only where no digital edition is available through commercial channels.
- These temporary extent limits apply to print books published by participating publishers only, and specifically exclude anthologies, plays or poetry.
- The changes to licence terms are effective to 31 July 2021. After that date the Licence Terms will revert to the original terms and the copying limit will revert to 10%.
- All usage will be monitored through the DCS, Talis Aspire or other approved workflow system provider and all extracts uploaded under this special provision must be removed from the DCS, Talis Aspire or equivalent system by 31 July 2021 at the latest.
- Copying under these temporary arrangements should not substitute for the purchase of original content, including a digital edition of the same book where this is available.
Publishers who have opted in to the temporary increased extent limits for the ICLA HE Licence.
This list will be updated regularly. (Source: https://www.cla.co.uk/HE-licence-terms-amended-covid19)
Publisher |
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ACC Art Books Limited |
Allison and Busby Limited |
Anness Publishing |
Archaeological and Architectural Society of Durham and Northumberland |
Archbishops Council |
Archetype Publications Limited |
Architectural Technology Services Limited |
Archive Publishing |
Association for Family Therapy Limited |
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Limited |
Association of Teachers of Mathematics Limited |
Benediction Classics Limited |
Berghahn Books Limited |
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Limited |
BioScientifica Limited |
Bloomsbury (all imprints) |
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society |
Bristol University Press |
British Psychological Society |
British School at Athens |
British Small Animal Veterinary Association |
C Hurst & Co Publishers Limited |
CABI |
Cambridge Philological Society |
Cambridge University Press |
Capstone Global Library Limited |
Carcanet Press Limited |
CG Jung Club London |
CG Jung Club London |
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals |
Child Poverty Action Group |
Colin Smythe Limited |
Colourpoint Creative Limited |
CoramBAAF Adoption and Fostering Academy |
Crown House Publishing Limited |
Design Council |
Eland Publishing Limited |
Elsevier |
Emerald Publishing Limited |
Equality and Human Rights Commission |
Equinox Publishing Limited - Journals |
European Respiratory Society Journals Limited |
Evangelical Press |
Exeter Press Limited |
Field Studies Council Limited |
Fordham University Press |
Francis Cairns (Publications) Limited |
Garth Publishing Services |
Geological Society of London |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
Greenwich Exchange Limited |
Hadrian Books Limited |
Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society |
Hawthorn Press Limited |
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion |
Hyphen Press |
Immediate Media Company Limited |
Imprint Academic Limited |
Institute of Art and Law Limited |
Intellect Limited |
IOP Publishing Limited |
JNCC Support Co |
John Libbey Publishing Limited |
John Wiley and Sons |
Kevin Mayhew Limited |
Kings College London |
Kogan Page Limited |
Lantern Publishing Limited |
Laurence King Publishing Limited |
Law Society of Scotland |
Legal Action Group Limited |
Liverpool University Press |
LSA Publications |
Luath Press Limited |
Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Mac Keith Press Limited |
Maghreb Review |
Management Pocketbooks Limited |
Marion Boyars Publishers Limited |
Mathematical Association |
Optimus Professional Publishing Limited |
O'Reilly UK Limited |
Oxford Publishing Limited (Academic) (OUP) |
Panaf Limited TA Panaf Books |
Pearson UK Ltd |
Pen and Sword Books Limited |
Pinter and Martin Limited |
Pluto Books Limited |
Practical Action Publishing Limited |
Reaktion Books Limited |
Regional Furniture Society |
RIBA 1834 Limited |
RM Education Limited |
Royal Numismatic Society |
Royal Society |
SAGE (all imprints) |
Sage Publications India Pvt Limited |
Salt Publishing |
Scarlet Press Limited |
Scholastic Limited |
School Library Association Limited |
School of Advanced Study |
Scion Publishing Limited |
Scottish History Society |
Scottish Society for Northern Studies |
Scottish Text Society |
Screen |
Seagull Books London Limited |
Search Press Limited |
Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited |
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |
Sort Of Limited |
Spiramus Press Limited |
SpringerNature (all imprints) |
Tarquin Publications Limited |
Taylor & Francis (all imprints) |
Technical and Educational Services Limited |
Triarchy Press Limited |
Troubador Publishing Limited |
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare |
University of Bath - Journal of Economics Policy and Transport |
University of Glasgow Press |
University of Illinois Press |
University of Law Limited |
University of Nottingham |
University of Reading |
University of St Andrews |
University of Strathclyde |
Verso |
Watts Writers Limited |
White Cockade Publishing |
White Horse Press |
Whiting & Birch Limited |
Wildy and Sons Limited |
Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Wolters Kluwer Health |
Wordsworth Editions Limited |
Worth Publishing Limited |
Writers and Readers Limited |