Good afternoon, colleagues,

Do you, or your users, copy works for preservation, use extracts to illustrate a point, re-use material for educational instruction, or provide copies of library and archive material for personal use? If so, you, or they, are probably using copyright exceptions that were changed in 2014.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is collecting evidence on the impact of the changes made in 2014 to UK copyright law. This call closes on 10 April 2019.

It’s crucial that our sectors provide evidence to the IPO to demonstrate the value of these changes. This means evidence to the IPO from as many organisations as possible. Strong evidence from our sectors will support future positive copyright reform.

The Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance has prepared a guide and template response sheet to support libraries and archives in responding to this call, to make gathering of relevant evidence, examples, and stories as simple as possible.

The guide and response template are attached and also available at uklaca.org/563.

The guide explains the changes made in 2014 and provides helpful information to support you in supplying useful evidence to the IPO, together with examples to illustrate when each of the exceptions might be used.

Please use this guide to help gather all the evidence, stories, and examples you can and submit these to the IPO by 10 April 2019! Even brief and anecdotal comments are valuable.

Full details of the call are available on the IPO website. Returns can be sent to [log in to unmask]

Thanks for your time, and best regards,

Joseph