UK copyright law allows for the creation of accessible and alternative formats of material for a disabled person or someone acting on their behalf. The Library Support team provide information and guidance on creating alternative formats. 

Copying of musical works and sheet music is covered by our Higher Education Printed Music Licence (HEPML). The licence allows staff and students to copy, and to arrange sheet music in order to support learning on a course that includes a music element.  

Most sheet music can be copied under the terms of the licence as long as the University library owns an original copy of the work. If you would like to make a copy of something that is not currently in the library collection, please contact the Subject Librarian for Music or complete a purchase request form.  

There are a small number of excluded works which cannot be copied, and you can view a full list of publishers covered by the licence. 

In general, entire works can be copied and distributed to students on a course, with the exception of workbooks, of which up to 10% of the total number of pages can be copied, and anthologies, which are limited to 10% of the number of works. Copies need to be labelled so that they are identifiable as being made under the HEPML. The following wording must be used: 

"Copy made on [date] only for use in connection with [name of course] under the HEPML held by [name of higher education institution]." 

All copies must be reported to Printed Music Licensing Ltd (PMLL) to ensure fair payment can be distributed to writers and composers whose works are copied. For more information about the HEPML please see the PMLL user guide. 

The library subscribes to a number of film and TV resources which can be used in teaching and are accessible via the A-Z databases list. They include: 

• BFI Player 
• Box of Broadcasts (BoB) 
• Kanopy 
• National Theatre Live recordings 

The library also holds a large collection of physical media such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs which can be used for teaching and in-person screenings when the film or media is being taught on a unit. Please note, if you are screening a film during a lecture, it must not be recorded to be shared asynchronously, as this would be a breach of copyright. 

If you are showing a clip of a film or programme during a recorded lecture, we recommend that you pause the recording while the clip plays and then resume the recording when it has finished. For more information please see the JISC guide to legal considerations for recording lectures. 

If you wish to include a film or other media in your teaching that the library does not currently have access to, please either contact your Subject Librarian, add it to your unit's resource list, or complete the purchase request form.

You may want to include images in your teaching resources. If you are discussing an image there is a copyright exception that permits you to reproduce images for educational purposes. Make sure that when you are doing so, you meet the criteria for fair dealing. The resources page has a list of websites where you can find openly licensed material. Or you may wish to use images or photographs that you have created yourself and to which you own the copyright. 

If you want to use a short extract of a work in your teaching there is a copyright exception that covers this. To meet the requirements of the exception, your use of the material should meet the criteria for 'fair dealing'. For example, adding an extract or quote to a PowerPoint presentation is fine, but uploading an entire text to Blackboard is not. 

If you want to use a longer extract you can link to the resource in the library collection so that students can access it themselves. We recommend using the Resource Lists software to ensure that resources are shared in a way that meets the resource license agreement and copyright requirements.  

If you want to share a resource that we do not currently have access to, you can request it either by contacting your Subject Librarian, completing a purchase suggestion form, or adding it to a resource list so it can be purchased for your unit

Web resources are not covered by the CLA. Some web resources may have been produced under CC or OGL licences, but if you are unsure then you should provide a link to the original rather than uploading a copy.