Standard Licences
You will be required to use standard terms and conditions for any licences you issue for the re-use of your material.
Below you will find examples of licences that you may adapt to meet your organisations’ requirements.
Free licences
For most of the material that you produce you will probably be happy to authorise its re-use free of charge, particularly if they are already available in digital form from your website. There are two ways in which you can do this.
- Through the notices and statements on your documents and websites.
- Through a simple, but more detailed, licence.
Example of a free licence for public sector information (Word - 74 KB)
Charged licences
For other material, for example material of a more commercial nature, you may want to charge for its re-use.
Example of a charged licence for public sector information (Word - 88 KB)
If you do want to charge for re-use you can do so, recovering the cost of producing and providing the document and including, if you wish a reasonable return on investment. You will also have to make sure that you are transparent about how any such charge is arrived at.