Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

38 Copying by librarians: articles in periodicals.U.K.

(1)The librarian of a prescribed library may, if the prescribed conditions are complied with, make and supply a copy of an article in a periodical without infringing any copyright in the text, in any illustrations accompanying the text or in the typographical arrangement.

(2)The prescribed conditions shall include the following—

[F1(a)that copies are supplied only to persons satisfying the librarian that they require them for the purposes of—

(i)research for a non-commercial purpose, or

(ii)private study,

and will not use them for any other purpose;]

(b)that no person is furnished with more than one copy of the same article or with copies of more than one article contained in the same issue of a periodical; and

(c)that persons to whom copies are supplied are required to pay for them a sum not less than the cost (including a contribution to the general expenses of the library) attributable to their production.

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