Copyright
Copyright protects the rights of authors, artists and performers and their right to control how their work is used. Their work can be published or unpublished. The work includes a vast number of formats from books, journals, websites, DVDs to name but a few.The creators of the works have exclusive rights to their work and this includes the copying of their work whether it is a photocopy or scanned copy.
If you make copies without the permission of the rights holder or under licence you are infringing copyright.
Copyright allows you as an individual to copy a small amount for non-commercial research and private study.
There is also provision for what you can do if you wish to provide copies of articles to your students during the teaching of a module. This is covered by the CLA Higher Education Photocopying and Scanning Licence. Anything you scan or photocopy and then distribute to your student must comply with this licence.
We will go into further detail regarding Photocopying and Scanning in the next sections.