The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) is owned by the UK national newspapers themselves and was formed in 1996 to regulate the copying of newspaper articles.

The licence permits the photocopying and scanning of newspaper articles of all national newspapers and around 80% of local newspapers for the purposes of internal management, education and instruction.


What the licence allows:

• Photocopying of up to 250 copies of any article of any newspaper included in the NLA licence for the purposes of education, instruction and internal management.

• Digital scanning of cuttings, for the circulation by email or other electronic means from most NLA newspapers but there are exclusions. 

What the licence does not allow:

• The copying of advertisements, images, illustrations or photographs which may appear alongside an article.

• The copying and circulation of cuttings from NLA newspapers outside of the licensed premises.

• The copying of the whole of any newspaper.

• Newspapers excluded from the NLA newspaper list.