In June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office announced it will look at changes to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. Essentially, exhaustion of IP rights is a limit on the control that copyright holders and others have over physical distribution of their works, such as books, in markets around the world.

As containing original expression in a fixed form, the content of podcasts are rather obviously subject to copyright protection by the “author” – whether that is an individual person or a corporate entity.

The Annual Copyright License for Curriculum & Instruction eases the burden of obtaining one-off permissions. It provides a broad repertory of print or digital rights that enable the reuse and distribution of excerpts of high-quality content in curriculum and instructional materials, educational technology applications, and online platforms such as learning management systems.