Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

39 Copying by librarians: parts of published works.U.K.

(1)The librarian of a prescribed library may, if the prescribed conditions are complied with, make and supply from a published edition a copy of part of a literary, dramatic or musical work (other than an article in a periodical) without infringing any copyright in the work, in any illustrations accompanying the work or in the typographical arrangement.

(2)The prescribed conditions shall include the following—

(a)that copies are supplied only to persons satisfying the librarian that they require them for purposes of research or 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 material or with a copy of more than a reasonable proportion of any work; 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.