Benefits of a CLA Business Licence A CLA Business Licence empowers, protects and supports your organisation. The licence can be extended to fit your specific industry needs. Helps minimise the risk of copyright infringement across your organisation. Saves time and money with fewer individual permissions requests and invoices to manage. Access to digital tools, extending the value of the licence. Make copies from publications from the UK and 39 international territories. Copy and circulate press cuttings or fee-paid documents in digital or print form. Share content with employees across your organisation. Post up to five articles (at any time) a year on your website. Strengthen your copyright policy Advocate ethical and responsible content use across your business. Fill out the form below then a CLA team member will contact you to discuss the best licence for your needs. "*" indicates required fields First Name* Last Name* Phone* Email* Organisation Name* Media Monitoring Agency(if applicable) PR agency(if applicable) Why are you contacting CLA*Interested in getting a CLA LicenceBeen contacted by CLAQuestion about copyrightOtherTell us more about your enquiry* HiddenLead Owner HiddenSectorBusinessFurther EducationHigher EducationHiddenStatus HiddenRecord TypeSF Lead Record Type HiddenLead Source HiddenUTM Campaign HiddenUTM Medium HiddenUTM Source CAPTCHAPhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Copy, Right with CLA 40 years of excellence CLA is regulated by the government as the collective licensing body for the reuse of text and images from books, journals and magazines. CLA is a member of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI). As a not-for-profit company, CLA distributes revenue back into the creative industries helping to ensure that rightsholders are fairly remunerated when their works are used. Do your employees share published content at work? Our Copyright Licence for businesses is required if any of your staff make copies from any of the 16 million-plus print or online publications that CLA represents. Making copies includes scanning, emailing, uploading to a central server, sharing press cuttings, emailing a journal article or even making a photocopy or scan from a book or trade magazine. Virtually all published content from print or digital sources is protected by copyright. This means you must make sure you have permission to use it at work, or you could be infringing copyright law - see 'Complying with copyright'. According to a recent survey of businesses around the world, the rate of work-related content sharing has tripled since 2016. 49% of that content is being sourced externally and is likely to be shared by executive-level staff compared to management. Yet, 47% of professionals recently surveyed are unaware of their organisation's copyright policy or unsure of its details. Protect your business CLA Business Licence minimises the risks of copyright infringement by providing blanket permissions. The cost of this licence is based on the type and size of your business. Check out our pricing here. Start your enquiry Business Licence variations We have developed sector-specific variations to the CLA Business Licence tailored to the sector’s needs. Be sure to speak to the team when discussing your licence and the right options for your business. Hotels & conference centres Permits guests to make copies. Law Send copies to clients, barristers, advisers, judicial staff, and more. More information MCL Empowers PR and media agencies to lawfully share content with their clients. More information Media Monitoring & Media Intelligence Separate from the Business Licence, this permits sending copies and snippet links to clients with specific terms including data reporting. More information Pharma & medical Permits the sharing of licensed copies between organisations holding relevant CLA and CCC Licences. More information TDM Coming soon. In the meantime you can find out more about our TDM and Generative AI initiatives. More information Training Make copies for delegates. Useful links Do you need a licence? Information on copyright Read more Licence documents View now Licence information pack Download Supporting tools Check Permissions works for all, even if you don’t have a licence. Use it to check whether the CLA licence covers an article, book, or website. View More From the first engagement, I was astonished as to how helpful and reassuring they have been to us and clients with every engagement. I think that there is stigma about copyright in our industry, and we have found that embracing licencing has not been the headache it’s sometimes reputed to be. Trevor Palmer Owner/Director - Tank PR Working in the health sciences arena it is essential that we respect and credit copyright ownership: having the CLA as a resource and advice centre helps us to do that efficiently. Cate Foster Senior Project Manager/Editor From the first engagement, I was astonished as to how helpful and reassuring they have been to us and clients with every engagement. I think that there is stigma about copyright in our industry, and we have found that embracing licencing has not been the headache it’s sometimes reputed to be. Trevor Palmer Owner/Director - Tank PR Our experience of working with the CLA has been very good - efficient processes, swift and helpful responses from our account lead, James Charleston. Robert Davies Head of Marketing & Communications - The Royal Institution Business Licence FAQs Find out more about Business Licence coverage and how it can protect your business How much can you copy? On each occasion, you may copy a chapter of a book, a single article from a periodical, or up to 5% of a publication, whichever is the greater. For digital publications such as websites that are not conventionally structured, you should ensure that copying is limited to small extracts that are equivalent to these limits. Who can make and receive copies? Any UK employee in your organisation, including individual consultants or agency workers, can make and receive copies. Any overseas employee in your organisation can receive digital copies (intranet and email) for viewing only (unless your company holds a CLA Multinational Licence). Does the licence cover international publications? CLA has agreements with similar agencies in most major overseas territories enabling International publications and content to be copied under the CLA Licence. For full details of these overseas agencies and the countries that are covered please visit cla.co.uk/international/territories Can I copy an article obtained from a document library? You can make copies when you have one of our licences. Can I photocopy or scan a magazine article or clipping received from a Media Monitoring Agency? Many major magazine titles can be copied under our licences – further information about reusing this kind of content here. Some magazines are licensed by NLA Media Access. You can see if you are covered to copy from any magazine by using our Check Permissions search tool. Permission to copy content from national or regional newspapers is granted by NLA Media Access. See more Gov.uk What the government website says about us Visit IPO Discover more about intellectual property and copyright law Visit
