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CLA Scanning Licence: Checking for excluded works

The CLA Scanning Licence does not apply to all material published in the UK or overseas. You must check for Excluded Works before progressing.

The Copyright Licensing Agency represents the majority of publishers in the UK, but not all of these have agreed to allow all their material to be part of the repertoire covered by the Scanning Licence. In addition there are items which can be photocopied under the CLA Photocopying Licence but cannot be scanned under the Scanning Licence.

To see which UK publishers and which works are excluded you should visit these CLA website pages:

Current agreements permit CLA licensees such as the University to copy titles published in the certain countries outside the United Kingdom. Material published in some territories is covered for photocopying only whilst in others it is covered for scanning as well. For full details see the table at:

The scanning licence now covers works published by many US publishers. However, not all are covered; so to see which publishers and works in the US are outside the scheme, see:

Note that some overseas publishers do have a UK publication division and will state a UK location and/ or publishing address on the work’s title or prelim pages. If the work to be scanned has been published via that address in the UK then it can be scanned. A statement that indicates that the edition was merely printed in the UK is not relevant to determining whether it is UK published.

Please check both web pages given above to find out whether or not the work you want to scan is in any of the excluded categories before going any further in the process.

If in doubt, go to the Advice page.

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