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World Book Day
3rd March 2010
The 4th March is World Book Day, the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland.World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The origins of the day we now ... Read more »
CLA are pleased to announce that one of the UK's biggest FE Colleges, Coleg Gwent, has won the CLA Beacon Award for Promoting the Value of Copyright. The Business, IT and Learner Services Team won the award for the promotion of plagiarism awareness. The team developed two Open College Network units on plagiarism in ... Read more »
Tom Bradley has been appointed as CLA’s second Independent Chair, taking up his post from the beginning of this year.   Initially beginning his career as a Commercial Apprentice with Pressed Steel Fisher, Tom Bradley then undertook financial studies and after lecturing at Luton College in the early 1970s progressed into financial ... Read more »
CLA and its compliance unit, Copywatch, have reached an out of court settlement with a UK city council for infringing the copyright contained in books, journals, magazines and trade press.  Evidence was obtained showing that council employees have been copying content contained in published media, which is protected by copyright, ... Read more »
CLA licence holders are invited to our 2009 Open Meeting, which this year takes place on Tuesday 22 September. The venue for the meeting is the Stationers Hall, ‘the birthplace of copyright’ and only a few places remain due to a high level of interest. The event starts at 2.30pm with a ... Read more »
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