Copyright guidance

We issue guidance to government departments, agencies and all users of Crown copyright protected materials. This guidance is designed to guide, alert and advise on a range of copyright and access issues. We welcome as wide a dissemination of these guidance notes as possible and they may be copied and distributed without restriction, through newsletters, e-mail, notice boards, in training manuals, on websites and by various other means.

Current guidance

Information previously covered by waiver conditions  (PDF, 0.02Mb)

Publication of Articles written by Ministers and Civil Servants (PDF, 0.10Mb)

Copyright in Works Commissioned by the Crown (PDF, 0.05Mb)

Copying of Birth, Death, Marriage and Civil Partnership Certificates (PDF, 0.04Mb)

Reproduction of National Curriculum Material for Wales (PDF, 0.06Mb)

Atgynhyrchu Deunydd y Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol ar gyfer Cymru (PDF, 0.03Mb)

Copyright and Publishing Notices (PDF, 0.11Mb)

Reproduction of Bills and Explanatory Notes to Bills of the United Kingdom Parliament (PDF, 0.05Mb)

Information Asset Register and Freedom of Information - a co-ordinated response to information access (PDF, 0.05Mb)

Freedom of Information Publication Schemes (PDF, 0.05Mb)

Reproduction of the British Passport (PDF, 0.04Mb)

Crown Copyright - an overview for government departments (PDF, 0.08Mb)

For details about obtaining permission to use and re-use a wide range of Crown copyright and Parliamentary copyright information, please see the licences for re-using public sector information section. 

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