During these challenging times, Bloomsbury wishes to support parents, teachers and children while schools and public libraries are closed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bloomsbury is therefore permitting teachers, authors, librarians and booksellers to create and share story time, read-aloud videos and live events temporarily, according to the below guidelines.
PLEASE NOTE:
• These permissions are granted only in respect of teachers and educators providing distance learning to students in a virtual classroom setting, and to authors, booksellers and librarians who wish to provide a live reading aloud experience to young people who would normally visit a library or bookshop in person.
• Permission is granted only for free use of the readings, and you may not charge in respect of any of the activities mentioned below without formal agreement from Bloomsbury.
• Bloomsbury grants the permissions set out below until the end of the current 2021/2022 school year.
In every case where a Bloomsbury book is read out loud we request that the title of the book and the name of the author and/or illustrator are announced at the beginning of each read aloud video or live event.
• Story time or classroom read-aloud videos in which a Bloomsbury book is read aloud (and, in the case of picture books, displayed) may be created and posted solely to closed educational platforms or to another closed network or platform where access is restricted to pupils of the teacher or educator.
• If a teacher or educator plans to share a story time video by recording a video, uploading it to a YouTube channel, and posting a link to that YouTube video inside a closed educational platform, that YouTube video must be designated as “Unlisted” (not “Public”) when uploading.
• These story time and classroom read-aloud videos may be hosted on the educational or other closed platform and/or or YouTube (as an “Unlisted” file – see above) until the end of the current school year, after which they must be deleted from the relevant platform unless this permission is extended by formal agreement with Bloomsbury.
Live events in which a Bloomsbury book is read out loud (and, in the case of picture books, displayed) may be streamed live, in real time, on social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitter, and Instagram. Because these platforms automatically archive live events, when your event has finished, please immediately delete the link associated with the event and the recording of the event from your account.
REQUIRED NOTIFICATIONS: Bloomsbury requests that all educators, authors, illustrators, librarians and booksellers notify us via email to [email protected] when you post or stream a story time or read-aloud video or live event and provide the following information:
• Type of Institution: school, library or bookshop
• Name and address of the school, library or bookshop
• Title, author and ISBN of the book that is read
• Contact information and title (e.g. Year 4 teacher, bookseller) for the individual responsible for the reading
• The educational or social media platform on which the video or live event is posted or held
• A link to that video or live event
NOTES
• In any instance of use, please cite that the content is being shared with permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
• These guidelines apply solely to works published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Where possible, please include or mention a link for a retailer where the book can be purchased.
• Please visit Bloomsbury’s Facebook page for regular and updated content to help families while at home - facebook.com/BloomsburyKids.
• Do check social channels of the author/illustrator you are reading as they may have posted extra content that you can use.
• If you have any questions relating to the above permissions then please email [email protected]
• For Harry Potter titles please contact The BlairPartnership: [email protected]
All Bloomsbury books are protected by copyright, and so unless otherwise stated, you are not permitted to copy or reproduce material from publications without our express permission. If however, you are a teacher in a UK school, you already hold CLA’s Education Licence, which covers you to copy 5% from a Bloomsbury book that your school owns. Find out more at www.cla.co.uk/licencetocopy
If you wish to reproduce, reprint, perform or copy any part of a Bloomsbury publication, please read the following guidelines before submitting your request.
To apply for permission to use material from Bloomsbury publications please complete the appropriate form available for download below with all of the details relevant to your request. Please note we cannot process requests over the telephone.
Visit our Performance Rights Permissions page for full details about who to apply to for performance rights, and for a complete list of the rights held by Bloomsbury.
Methuen Drama Performance Permission Request - Word Document
Methuen Drama Performance Permission Request - PDF
Bloomsbury Permission Request - Word Document
Bloomsbury Permission Request - PDF
Bloomsbury includes the following imprints: A&C Black, Adlard Coles Nautical, Andrew Brodie Publications, Arden Shakespeare, AVA, Berg, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Professional, Bloomsbury, Bristol Classical Press, Christopher Helm, Continuum, Fairchild Books, Featherstone Education, Herbert Press, John Wisden & Co, Methuen Drama, T&AD Poyser, Thomas Reed, T&T Clark and Walker Books.
If the requested material is not from any of the above imprints, please check the copyright page at the front of the book for information that another publisher previously published the title. If this is the case, you should apply to the original publisher directly.
If the requested material is part of an anthology or collection, or is an illustration or photograph, please check the acknowledgment pages at the front or back of the book for information that the rights are controlled by another party. If this is the case, you will need to apply to them directly.
Under UK law, copyright expires at the end of the period 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author dies, unless the work has been published posthumously. If the copyright has expired, the original text may be reproduced without permission.
If your enquiry relates to a title published before 1930, we are extremely unlikely to hold the rights and will be unable to process your request.
If you are an educational institution and are registered with PLS, you do not need to request our permission to photocopy but need to log any photocopying in the normal way. No permission is needed to reproduce material which is marked photocopiable.
Please allow up to eight weeks to process a request. We receive a very large number of permission requests and many of these require us to track down and consult authors, artists, their agents or estates.
Bloomsbury Permission Request - Word Document
Bloomsbury PermissionRequest - PDF
Send your completed form to:
Claire Weatherhead
Permissions Department
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
50 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3DP
or
[email protected]
Visit our Performance Rights Permissions page for full details about who to apply to for performance rights, and for a complete list of the rights held by Bloomsbury.
The A&C Black Music list has now moved to Collins Learning, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. All titles are now available through www.collins.co.uk
For performance rights, please contact [email protected]
Our academic division includes the following imprints: Arden Shakespeare, AVA, Berg, Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press, Continuum, Fairchild Books, Methuen Drama and T&T Clark.
Please read the following before downloading the permissions request form:
If your request is for a coursepack, please contact Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com in the US or the Copyright Licencing Agency http://www.cla.co.uk/licences/licences_available in the UK in the first instance.
For standard permissions, please fill out this form and return to one of the people listed below.
Return the form to:
For all Academic requests:
Email: [email protected]
Fax: Attn: Claire Weatherhead +44(0)20 7631 5800
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
