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.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 38(2)(a) substituted (31.10.2003) by The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2498), reg. 14(1) (with regs. 31-40)