The paper will touch upon the copyright laws that have attempted to regulate copying within HEIs in the UK and consider whether it has been a success or not. The paper will then carry out a study in to CLA and will aim to raise and answer the following question: what really happens to the money that is collected from HEIs by the CLA and distributed through the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)?
The aim of this paper is to take the reader through the historical development of exceptions to rules, in particular exceptions to copyright law in the light of technological advancement. The present discussion will commence by going back in time to consider how exceptions to rules came about and the reasons why exceptions were created in the first place.
