Copyright and using resources

Education licences

Books, magazines and digital resources are protected by copyright, but most educational institutions hold copyright licences which allow you to copy/scan extracts for teaching purposes. See https://www.cla.co.uk/licencetocopy for more details and consult the library if you have copyright queries.

If you plan to use a resource when teaching (e.g. photocopy/scan from a book or print from a website), it is advisable to reference where you took it from. Most teaching websites also have terms of use that you can check, e.g. TopMarks teaching resource website states under Terms of Service: “The Service contains resources owned by us or licensed to us. These resources may be freely used by teachers in their own classrooms.”

Creating recordings

You can read books aloud to children in the classroom but be careful if you want to make any recordings, as an electronic distribution of a performance could be infringing copyright, even if for teaching purposes. Any videos that you make should be kept in secure environments (e.g. a VLE and not publicly distributed); add a notice alongside the video acknowledging the copyright in the work and emphasising that it is for educational purposes only; only use publishers who have given permission to do so, see: https://www.alcs.co.uk/news/sharing-books-and-content-online