Why copyright compliance matters for biotech start-ups Biotech teams share and reuse published content at every stage, from research and regulatory submissions to investor materials and prompting generative AI tools, so it’s important to understand where your organisation stands and reflect on the everyday practices that involve content use. We’ve created a handy checklist to help organisations assess whether they are at risk of copyright infringement. "*" indicates required fields 1. Does your organisation have a procedure for obtaining copyright permissions?*YesNot sureNo2. Does your organisation have a copyright compliance policy written by a qualified legal professional?*YesNot sureNoIf yes, is this copyright policy regularly updated and communicated to employees?*YesNot sureNo3. Does your organisation save or store published content? (e.g. on a local device, a shared drive, an intranet, or company website)*YesNot sureNo4. Do employees upload, paste or otherwise prompt generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or internally hosted LLMs) with third-party published content for summarisation, literature review, competitive intelligence or drafting?*YesNot sureNo5. Do employees include third-party content (figures, tables, abstracts or full articles) in external documents such as regulatory submissions, patent applications, or legal proceedings?*YesNot sureNo6. Do employees reuse third-party published content (charts, figures, data, headlines or quotes) in internal documents such as board packs or internal briefings?*YesNot sureNo7. Do employees receive and share published articles via subscriptions, libraries, document delivery services, partners or monitoring tools?*YesNot sureNo8. Do employees copy, extract or compile content from multiple published sources into single documents (e.g. literature reviews, landscape analyses)?*YesNot sureNo9. Does your organisation share copyrighted content with external collaborators (e.g. CROs, CDMOs, research partners or consultants)?*YesNot sureNo Get your results Complete your details for the results of your copyright risk assessment.Name* First Last Email* Job TitleOrganisation*Privacy Policy* By completing this form I agree to CLA's Privacy Policy Next steps We would like to contact you to discuss your responses and to provide further information about our licences. Please check this box if you agree to be contacted by CLA about our licences Stay up to date Sign up to receive publications, research, newsletters and events, and product news from CLA You can view or change your preferences or unsubscribe at any time.This field is hidden when viewing the formMarketing Preferences CLA Business Licences This field is hidden when viewing the formBusiness Segmentation Pharmaceutical This field is hidden when viewing the formMarketing Content Copyright Risk Assessment This field is hidden when viewing the formMarketing Sync Yes This field is hidden when viewing the formRecord TypeThis field is hidden when viewing the formLead OwnerThis field is hidden when viewing the formStatusThis field is hidden when viewing the formLead SourceThis field is hidden when viewing the formForm IDCAPTCHA Please note that this risk assessment is a guidance tool only and does not constitute legal advice. It should not be considered as legal advice and should not be relied on when determining whether a particular use of work would infringe copyright. It is always best practice to seek the permission of the rights owner if unsure.Â
