It is up to the rightsholder to decide which method to use for each publication. The fee for utilisation is calculated as the fee per page multiplied by the number of pages multiplied by the number of students enrolled on the teaching module for which the material is required or recommended reading. The material can still be made available to other students and staff for the independent and non-directed pursuit of their studies. But you will be in breach of the licence terms if any member of teaching or admin staff directly or indirectly, formally or informally, orally or in writing, recommends the material to a student on any teaching module other than one in respect of which the fee has been paid. If evidence of abuse emerges, copyright holders are likely to require CLA to insist on document-level access controls in future, which would be undesirable as it would impose a significant extra administrative burden.
Students can continue to access the material until they are examined on it.
In the case of material subject to flat-fee pricing, permission lasts for five years. Neither of these recommendations is binding, and both have been notified to the Office of Fair Trading. For the time being, until the copyright situation with illustrators groups is resolved, the licence only applies to the literary material in publications, not to any artistic works such as photographs, illustrations, diagrams, figures or graphs. In the same way, students and staff can also access the material via the Internet from their lodging-houses and homes away from campus. Provided that the authentication procedures on the university servers are secure and conform to best practice, they can access it via the Internet, thus avoiding long-distance call charges.