Automated process aligns with CLA’s digital transformation strategy, drives greater efficiencies.

Since 2020, CLA has hosted an annual competition for 16-19-year-old students attending UK schools and colleges. This year CLA is launching it’s annual IP Prize with two new categories so that entrants have even more choice as to how they express their views.

Every year staff from CLA spend time volunteering with local charities in London and Edinburgh.

In a revamped, virtual format, Judge Kathleen O’Malley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and British author Tom Chatfield, will deliver the 2021 Charles Clark Memorial Lecture at 3pm CEST/2pm GMT on Wednesday 29 September.

We’re delighted to announce that Charlotte Rushton, 19, and alumna of Westonbirt School Sixth Form in Gloucestershire, has won this year’s CLA Copyright Essay Prize.

Publishers’ Licensing Services celebrates the 40th anniversary of its creation in September 2021, having passed the milestone of £500m in collective licensing distributions to publishers.

The 2021 survey is now complete, and we’d like to thank the 700+ participants who responded to this year’s questions.  The survey orientates around a similar set of questions each year to analyse how CLA is helping school and college staff with our mission to make copyright simple.

Meet this year's Copyright Essay Prize judging panel.

Copyright Licensing Agency set to accelerate its digital technology-based service offer.
Announcement of Tony Johnson as Chief Technology Officer boosts leadership team.

The Copyright Licensing Agency and the Department for Education in England have renewed the existing central licensing scheme for state schools. The new agreement, running from April 2021 to March 2026, will ensure that state-funded schools in England retain access to a wide range of published materials to support learning and teaching.