Higher Education

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:

1. This amendment applies only where no digital edition is available through commercial channels. 
2. These temporary extent limits apply to print books published by participating publishers only, and specifically exclude anthologies, plays or poetry.
3. 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%.
4. 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.
5. 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)