ELLACopyright and what you can upload
This page repeats what ELLA's own policies say. It is not legal advice. The full text is in the acceptable use policy and the terms of service.
What you can upload
Only submit work you own, have permission to use, or are allowed to use under a copyright exception.
The UK has exceptions that let disabled people, people acting for them, and education and not-for-profit bodies make accessible copies. The policy tells you to use ELLA within those rules.
What ELLA may ask
When you adapt a work you do not own, the app may ask what lets you copy it. The choices are:
- the copy is for a disabled person's own use, and you are that person or are acting for them;
- you are, or act for, a school, college, university or not-for-profit body making copies for disabled people;
- you have permission, because you own the rights or the rights holder or a licence allows it.
ELLA also asks you to confirm that the material was obtained lawfully. Giving a false answer breaks the terms of service. ELLA uses your answer only to make and label that copy, and deletes it with the request.
What you must not do
- Do not use ELLA to make copies for sale or hire.
- Do not pass accessible copies to anyone other than a disabled person or an authorised body, unless the rights holder allows it. For example, do not convert a whole book to sell or to post publicly.
- Do not remove or hide copyright notices, credits or rights information.
- Do not upload works that have had copy protection removed, and do not ask ELLA to get around copy protection. ELLA does not remove DRM.
Using ELLA at work or in study
You may use ELLA for yourself and your family, in your own job, in your own studies, and as a volunteer helping a disabled person you know. You may not supply results to other people as a paid service.
Protected files
If a file is copy protected, ask the publisher or the body that supplied it for an accessible file.
Still stuck?
Browse the help centre, or contact support and say what you were trying to do.