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Highland Council has a licence agreement with the Educational Recording Agency
www.era.org.uk
which allows the
Council’s schools, adult and youth centres and education resource centres to
record off-air, copy and store scheduled radio and TV programmes from the main
broadcasters
for
educational purposes only.
Please note that our ERA licence does not cover online rebroadcast
material such as programmes streamed on the BBC’s iPlayer, interactive services
or Podcasts.
Our ERA licence allows us to record off-air on to DVD, video, CD or cassette
formats and to transfer analogue off-air recordings to digital e.g. video to
DVD.
Digital off-air recordings may also be stored on a licensed educational
establishment’s internal server for viewing by classes, provided appropriate
security measures are in place, but cannot be transmitted online between
establishments. Licensed recordings may also be used in Power
Point presentations.
Our ERA licence also allows licensed resource centres to supply schools with
hard copies of programmes they have missed.
Channels covered by the ERA licence
Our licence covers scheduled broadcasts on BBC radio and TV, the ITV network,
Channel 4, E4 , Channel 5 and S4C only. Recording Sky TV and other satellite or
cable providers’ programmes is dependent on the licence agreement which
accompanies the digital decoders.
As mentioned above our ERA licence does not cover interactive services available
on digital television sets, nor does it cover on-demand services such as
Podcasts or retrospective internet services such as the BBC’s iPlayer or Channel
4’s “Watch Online”. However when the broadcasters offer fixed viewing times for
programmes on the internet (such as an important outside broadcasts) these may
be treated as scheduled programmes and may be recorded under the ERA licence.
Off-Air Recording Procedures
Recordings may be made on school premises or at home by accredited employees
e.g. teachers, school librarians or technicians. Recordings made at home must be
in hard copy form i.e. DVD, CD etc.
It is illegal to make copies of pre- recorded, commercially produced
recordings of TV or radio programmes.
Hard copy recordings may also be made at licensed education resources centres or
at the premises of officially nominated third parties.
It is a condition of the licence that recordings or extracts of recordings are
used as broadcast and are not edited, subtitled or adapted in any way they must
always be used for strictly educational purposes only, i.e. viewed by pupils and
teachers as part of a lesson. They are not to be sold, hired or used for general
entertainment or be incorporated into websites or external computer databases.
All recordings or extracts must be labelled.
The recording together with its cover or case must include the following
information.
The above details must also be included if the recording is stored in an
internal server.
Labelling
Pre-printed labels or templates are available direct from the ERA . To
order email
era@era.org.uk
Finally all recordings that are no longer needed must be destroyed.
Monitoring of Recording and Copying
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Licensees may be required to undertake and
maintain at the request of the ERA details of television or radio programmes
or any parts thereof which are recorded and the number of copies made under
the licence. A small rotating sample of schools may be required to maintain
detailed records of radio and TV programmes which they have recorded and
copied.
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It is a condition of the
licence agreement that the ERA may have access to all the above records and
also has access to premises to inspect the recordings to ensure that they
comply with the terms of the licence agreement. The ERA produce
approved video spine labels carrying this message.
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