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What We Do

We are a not-for-profit organisation that provides licensing solutions to allow you to copy, scan and share copyright–protected words and images.  The income from our licences is paid to authors and publishers when their work is copied. 

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We license schools, colleges, universities, language schools, businesses and other organisations to copy extracts from published works

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Authors & Publishers

If you are, or have been, based in Ireland and are the copyright holder of book, magazine or journal content, it may be that we have collected money for you/your organisation and have not been able to trace you.

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Protecting Copyright

In about the year 500AD, St Colmcille borrowed a book of the Gospels from St Finnian of Maigh Bhile and secretly copied it. On realising what had been done, Finnian demanded the return of the book and also the copy. Colmcille objected, saying that the copy was his. The matter was referred to Diarmaid mac Cearrbheoil, the high king. His judgement was "le gach bó a buinín agus le gach leabhar a chóip", "to every cow her calf and to every book its copy".

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02Dec/19

Copyright & Other Intellectual Property Provisions Act 2019

2nd December 2019NewsICLA

ICLA welcome the commencement of the Copyright & Other Intellectual Property Provisions Act 2019.  We wish to advise that the existing obligation to have a licence for the copying of copyright materialRead More…

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