Find out more about Business Licence coverage and how it can protect your business
From time to time you may make changes to your employee numbers, professional employee figures or your subsidiary companies. Our normal practice is to contact you 2 months before your renewal is due to ask you to review your account and tell us about any relevant changes. However, if the person who normally deals with your licence changes, you should let us know as soon as possible by contacting us.
‘Professional Employees’ include employees at managerial level and above, together with any other staff who have a professional or technical qualification directly related to their role e.g. qualified accountant, lawyer, HR professional. This should include employees, contracted workers and consultants in the following categories based on the Standard Occupational Classifications published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS): Group 1 Managers and Senior Officials Group 2 Professional Occupations Group 3 Associate Professional and Technical Occupations
The licence fee is generally calculated according to the size of a company measured by the number of employees and the type of company with reference to the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) as categorised by the government Office for National Statistics. Businesses employing up to 50 employees are subject to a flat annual fee based on the total employees of the business. The annual fee for businesses with 1-10 total employees is £148.43 + VAT The annual fee for businesses with 11-50 total employees is £507.5 + VAT Rates for Businesses with 51 or more total employees are charged per professional employee and the SIC code of the main business activity. Your licence provides cover to all employees but your Professional Employee figure (see below) more fairly represents the number of employees most likely to copy and share licensed material. See our main rate card here.
CLA & NLA licences are complementary but represent separate publications and therefore organisations making ad-hoc copies from a variety of media will invariably find they will benefit from holding both licences. NLA media access provide cover for newspapers and some magazines. The CLA licence covers millions of publications including books, journals, trade magazines, periodicals, law reports, and many digital publications and online content including ‘free-to-view’ websites. The differences between CLA and NLA licences coverage is explored here. You can be reassured that there is no overlap between CLA and NLA magazine cover and in all cases a title is either represented by CLA or NLA.
We cover more than 17 million publications including books, journals, trade magazines, periodicals, law reports, many digital publications and online content including free-to-view websites. Because we cover so many titles, and because we update the list all the time, we are unable to provide a full list as it is cumbersome and impractical for customers to use. However, we do have an online check permissions search tool that you can use to check any specific title, and this can be found on any page of our website. It lets you search for a publication by title, author, publisher, ISBN, ISSN or URL and displays all the permissions associated with that publication.