The University holds a licence with the Educational Recording
Agency (ERA), which permits the
recording of television programmes and the making of copies of these broadcasts for non-
commercial educational purposes, but these broadcasts may only be communicated to registered
students and/or teaching staff within the premises of the educational establishment, i.e. no off-
campus access including to students and staff. The purpose of the recordings must be for
educational purposes only. Extracts or parts of a programme may be recorded in either analogue or
digital form, but adaptations are not allowed, e.g. separating and adding new soundtracks, providing
different narration.
The terms of the Licence require that all recordings,
including those of extracts from programmes,
shall be labelled with the date and title of each recording, with an affixed label stating: "This
recording is to be used only for educational purposes." Programme credits are considered
part of a
broadcast and should not be edited from recordings.
The Licence does not cover Open University programmes,
which are covered by a separate licence
with each recording attracting a separate fee. Cable and satellite programmes may also be
recorded, these recordings falling outside the remit of the ERA Licence but permitted under
legislation because no other licensing scheme for these types of recordings is in place.
