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If your organisation copies or distributes extracts, articles or cuttings from print or digital magazines, books, journals, online publications or websites without specific permissions from the copyright owners then you are likely to be breaking the law.


CLA licences have been developed to help organisations ensure compliance with the law and avoid the risk and potential cost of copyright infringement.

 

Watch our short video

If you are not sure if you need a licence then you can watch our video ‘Is YouBusiness Copyright Compliant?’

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Complete an instant risk assessment
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We also recommend that you carry out our online risk assessment. It only takes two minutes to complete, is completely confidential and will give you an immediate assessment of whether you are likely to need a licence. 

Click the icon to complete our risk assessment.

 

Read more about copyrightFAQs about copyright

We have some FAQs about copyright to help you understand the basics of the law.

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Do the right thing by creators and copyright owners
Protect creativity
We work to help protect and sustain creativity by providing a fair reward for writers, artists and publishers when their work is copied or reused.

Click the icon to read more about how our licences protect creativity.
 

If you still have a question or want to find out more please speak one of our licensing advisers and they will  be pleased to help you. Call on 0800 085 6644 

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