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Terms and Conditions of the ERA Licensing Scheme |
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Recordings Recordings and copies of recordings made under the ERA Licence are to be used only for the non-commerical educational purposes of that establishment. Recordings may not be shown to fee-paying audiences or non-registered students. Recordings may be made on-site, at home by staff or by a designated third party on behalf of the establishment. Retention of Recordings Programmes recorded between 1st August 1989 and 30th May 1990 - Can be retained indefintiely. Programmes recorded after 30th May 1990 under the terms of an ERA Licence - Can be retained indefinitely while a current ERA Licence is held. Programmes recorded prior to 1st August 1989 - Are governed by the terms of the licence under which they were recorded. Labelling All recordings, whether analogue or digital, must be clearly and appropriately labelled. Failure to do so may lead to Licences being withdrawn. Further information and details on how to label recordings can be found here... How is Scheme usage monitored From time to time, ERA may require a small sample of educational establishments to help monitor the effectiveness of the Scheme. This may involve licensees in simple record-keeping or completion of a short survey. Our liaison officer visits participating establishments to explain procedures and is available to assist with queries throughout the exercise. Extracts Extracts or parts of a programme may be recorded and then stored in either digital or analogue form. Note that the terms of the ERA Licence, including labelling requirements, also apply to recorded extracts. However, the adaptation, alteration or mutilation of a recording is not permitted under the ERA Licence. This includes the separation of soundtrack from images, the substitution of another commentary, or any alteration which would change the origional concept of the work. Making Copies Recordings made under the Sceme may be copied for educational use, as long as the conditions of the ERA Licence are met and no commercial element is involved. For example, licensed establishments may copy recordings and supply them on cassette or disc to ERA licensees who have missed a broadcast. Note that on-line delivery and electronic transmissions of copies between licensees or a licensed resource centre is not permitted. Licensees making copies for other licensed establishments recover out-of-pocket costs e.g postage, purchase of video, DVD, CD etc. Charging a fee over and above out-of-pocket costs for copies provided to a third party is 'dealing' under the Act and is not permitted. Copies that are dealt with are infringing copies and may leave anyone responsible for the dealing open to legal action. The copying of commercially produced, pre-recorded videos, audio tapes, CDs and DVDs is not authorised by the ERA Scheme. Greater detail can also be found in the current ERA Info booklet, available free of charge from ERA. Answers to further questions may be found on FAQs. *Full terms and conditions can be found in Appendix 1 to the ERA Licence. Please click here.... to order a copy from ERA |