Its aim is to help its customers legally access, copy or share the published content that they want, while making sure copyright owners are paid for the use of their work.
As an aggregator of publisher, author and visual artist rights from 35 countries, CLA is a leading provider of licences and products to the education, corporate and public sectors.
CLA is a non-profit organisation and money collected in licence fees is distributed to the copyright owners after company costs have been deducted.
[3] As well as UK publications, CLA has agreements with reproduction rights organisations (RROs) that allow employees to copy works published in over 35 other countries.
[4] Copywatch was established in 1996 by The Copyright Licensing Agency to counter illegal copying of books, magazines and journals in the business and local authority areas.