UCL Copyright advice

The UCL Library Services Copyright Team offers information and assistance on a wide range of copyright issues to UCL students and staff.

Test your knowledge, take our copyright quiz!

Copyright resources and training opportunities

A selection of useful external online resources.
Training and help from UCL Library Services.
Copyright for PhD Students, an online booklet explaining copyright essentials: Particularly relevant for PhD and Masters students.

Copyright and OpenEd@UCL

Guide for UCL students when publishing your work on OpenEd@UCL.

UCL Copyright

Contact

Email copyright@ucl.ac.uk

FAQs

Online teaching and learning: new copyright guidance on using film and other material

"Why can't I use it? I found it on the internet"

Read all of our FAQs

Lobbying for Copyright reform

Copyright blog

A new online copyright module, upcoming sessions, and on-demand training

New copyright module launched

21st December 2022

This Academic Writing Month, think of your rights as authors

November is Academic Writing Month: an annual event giving you the opportunity to set some writing goals and put time aside to meet them, while sharing progress and writing tips with others.

7th November 2022

Intellectual property rights, open licences, and climate justice

Happy Open Access Week 2022!

24th October 2022

Copyright infringement, plagiarism, or both? Keeping it both ethical and legal when using others’ work

3rd October 2022

UCL copyright news, September 2022

20th September 2022

Who’s afraid of copyright? Five key points for UCL staff and students to help you start the new term with confidence

With the new academic year upon us, what better time to post a refresher on copyright practices?

Whether you are preparing your lectures, carrying on with your research projects, attending new modules or writing your dissertation, here is a reminder of what you can do when using resources in your teaching, learning and research…while staying within copyright law.

30th August 2022

Fair dealing week! 21st – 25th February 2022

The first UK Fair Dealing week is nearly upon us! Celebrating the Fair Dealing exceptions in UK copyright law, this week highlights and encourages a better understanding of the topic. It began as the US ‘Fair Use Week’ which this year has been extended to include countries who use the concept of Fair Dealing in their copyright law. Though different doctrines they have core similarities.

18th February 2022

Learning on Screen: copyright training

https://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecliche/6476864177; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/

17th February 2022

Covid-19 update: Box of Broadcasts and the ERA licence

UCL’s ERA (Educational Recording Agency) licence enables recording of broadcast TV and radio for educational purposes: programmes are delivered through the searchable database BoB (Box of Broadcasts). For more about the ERA licence and BoB, and how they can be used to support teaching, see this previous blog post on ‘TV and radio in teaching‘.

9th June 2020

Update on Copyright support for UCL students and staff

The UCL Library Services Copyright team is currently working remotely. We are still available to assist with copyright enquiries from UCL students and staff specifically, so please do feel to contact us by emailing: Copyright@ucl.ac.uk We will be checking those emails regularly, but we will also be working non-standard hours for the time being so please bear with us if it takes a while to reply to your questions.

1st April 2020