Copying Guidelines for Independent Schools

Your independent school's licence with Access Copyright gives you permission to copy from a vast repertoire of commercially published books, magazines and newspapers. As long as you adhere to the terms and conditions of your licence, you can copy what you need worry-free.

Definition of copying includes:

• paper copies
• faxes
• typing and word processing (without adaptation)
• making slides and overheads
• duplicating from a stencil, or tracing
• copying onto microform (for research and archival purposes)

You can copy up to 10% of a published work in the Access Copyright repertoire or the following, whichever is greater:

• an entire single short story, play, essay or poem from a book or periodical containing other works
• an entire article from a newspaper, magazine or journal
• an entire entry from a reference work (encyclopedia, dictionary)
• an entire reproduction of an artistic work from a publication containing other works
• a whole chapter from a book, as long as that chapter does not comprise more than 20% of the book

Works NOT covered by the licence:

• items on the Exclusions List
• unpublished works
• consumable items such as workbooks, assignment sheets, and colouring books
• Crown or provincial publications (excluding Québec)
• instruction manuals and teachers' guides; tests and work cards
• sheet music and original artistic works including photographs or prints
• works published in countries with which Access Copyright does not have a bilateral agreement
• works with notices excluding them from copying under a collective licence

Number of copies permitted:

• one copy for each student in a class and two for each teacher
• copies for library and administrative purposes, including communication to parents

Uses NOT covered by the licence:

• digital or electronic reproduction
• creation of coursepacks or anthologies