In August 2017, CLA and Kortext announced their acquisition of the rebus:list reading list management system from PTFS Europe. Over the past few months, both companies have worked on rebranding the system and are pleased to reveal that the enhanced product will be relaunched to customers as KeyLinks.

In the past week, CLA met with two professional copyright bodies from Japan to discuss and share ideas on educational licensing and fair distribution of royalties to creators.

The Schools Printed Music Licence (SPML) is hosting a Creatives Corner session at the upcoming Music and Drama Education Expo, exploring the business of printed music royalties and the value of printed published music in schools.

Shake It Up, the music competition for schools that encourages teachers to make the most of their Schools Printed Music Licence, is delighted to announce its panel of judges.

The Schools Printed Music Licence (SPML) will exhibit at the Music and Drama Education Expo (MDEE) 2017, 22-23 February. This year's event takes place in London Olympia.

CLA has introduced new administration copying rights to the Higher Education Licence, as well as updating the Licence to reflect new UK legislation and the Marrakesh Treaty, helping make content more accessible for partially sighted students.

On 6 October, the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) applied to the UK Government to operate an Extended Collective Licensing Scheme.

The Winter Meeting of the Copyright Information & Technologies in Education (CITE) Forum for Higher Education (HE), hosted by CLA, is soon to take place at King's College London's Waterloo Campus on the 12th December.

The Digital Content Store, our innovative copyright and course-pack management tool for Higher Education (HE), included in the HE Licence as an optional service, continues to go from strength to strength, recently completing its most recent phase of development and reaching over two million student downloads of content.

After 36 years the Publishers Licensing Society is changing its name and undergoing a complete re-brand. From now on, the organisation will be known as Publishers' Licensing Services.