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List of excluded categories and works

Some categories of published works, as well as some specific works by individual authors, artists and publishers, are not covered by CLA's licences.

Below is a 'List of Excluded Categories' and a 'List of Excluded Works' which may not be photocopied or scanned under any CLA licence.

If you wish to copy from any of the works listed here you should contact the rights holder(s) directly for permission prior to photocopying or scanning.

List of excluded categories

• Works published outside the United Kingdom and the International Territories.
• Works published by US publishers that are listed on the 'Excluded US Publishers List'
• Maps, charts or books of tables
• Printed music (inc the words)
• Works specifically excluded by a special notice mentioning CLA, either on the work itself or by inclusion on the list below
• Tests or public examination papers whether published individually or in a collection
• All newspapers
• Privately owned documents issued for tuition purposes and limited to clientele who pay fees (except those published by the Open University or the National Extension College)
• Workbooks, workcards, or assignment sheets
• Industrial house journals

Additional restrictions on scanning and re-use of digital material

• Scanning
  Where CLA licences include scanning rights they currently only permit the scanning of works originally published in the UK and US, except where the US publisher has specifically excluded them. See the 'Excluded US Publishers List'.
  
  

In addition, customers in the higher education (HE) sector should also refer to the separate list of Works excluded from scanning under the terms of the HE licence and customers in the Further Education (FE) sector should note that FE licences currently permit the scanning of UK works only.

• Re-use of digital material
  CLA has various licences that permit the re-use and copying of digital material in addition to photocopying and scanning. Under the terms of these licences only certain digital material can be copied or re-used. See list of ‘Included digital material’. 

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