Our answers to your most frequently asked questions. Discover more about CLA Licences and protecting your organisation from copyright infringement.
When you prompt a generative AI tool using copyright-protected work, you will in most cases require the permission of the rightsholder to use their content in this way. The indemnity protection provided to users by companies supplying generative AI tools is limited and does not extend to the use of inputs and prompting of published content. The user remains liable under the relevant tool’s terms of use for copyright infringement claims. The new workplace generative AI permissions in your CLA licence help to address this risk. The licence now permits users to include and make, or permit the making of, digital copies of copyright protected work to prompt permitted generative AI tools to generate outputs. View a summary table of the new generative AI permissions.
Buying one of our licences provides you with blanket permission and avoids the need to contact the authors and publishers each time you want to make a copy, providing the published content is covered within our repertoire. You can use our Check Permissions search tool to find out if you're covered.
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.
You will need to get permission from the map publisher. Standard licences are available from most major map publishing companies such as Street Map and the Ordnance Survey.
You can make copies when you have one of our licences.
Our business and public administration licences allow unlimited storage on a company intranet provided that the publisher is signed up to our licensing scheme and the publication is covered. To see if a publication is covered under the licence please use the Check Permissions search tool on our website. If the publication is not covered by your licence then you would need to seek clearance from the publisher directly.