It is with great pleasure that CLA announces the judging panel for our first ever Copyright Essay Competition.

The Copyright Licensing Agency is sponsoring the Excellence in Supporting Creativity for the 2020/21 Awards.

In April we announced temporary support for higher education institutions by extending some key terms of the higher education licence. These temporary terms ended on 30 June and we have since received requests for these terms to be extended until the end of the year.

CLA's first annual survey results are in! 400 teachers took part in our survey, designed to assess how well CLA is supporting teachers who rely on our licence to resource their lessons. 

NHS staff can now get the information they need, faster than ever before New Licence Plus Document Delivery tool offers simple on-demand access to copyright cleared journal articles.

UK and Irish Copyright Licensing Agency join forces to help Irish universities deliver remote learning during COVID-19 crisis.
Higher education institutions in Ireland given greater access to book content through CLA Digital Content Store.

The Copyright Licensing Agency is hosting an essay writing competition for 16-19 year old students in the UK.

Students are invited to submit answers to the question ‘social media has been a disaster for intellectual property’. Discuss. A panel of judges will decide which three essays will win a cash prize.

Since the outbreak of the corona virus crisis PMLL have been liaising closely with teachers about the Schools Printed Music Licence (SPML) and understanding how we can help to continue to support their music education while schools are operating largely remotely, other than for children of key workers.

Copyright Licensing Agency relaxes copyright licence rules to support sector through COVID-19 crisis.
UK higher education institutions have been given greater access to scanned book content and can also copy an increased amount from many print books.

During these uncertain times, the only thing we can be sure of is that music is available and remains good for everybody. It helps raise our spirits, makes us happy and brings people together (even remotely) in the most trying of circumstances.