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Schools across England will save more than 拢6.5 million after the government struck deals with licensing companies for shared rights to use films, newspapers and television shows in classrooms.

皇冠体育app licences previously had to be bought individually by schools and local authorities, often resulting in expensive and time-consuming negotiations.

Now the Department for Education has reached agreements so that from next month all state schools in England will be automatically covered for these licences, potentially saving more than 拢6.5 million.

皇冠体育app deals have been struck with:

• the (ERA), which allows schools to use programmes from BBC, ITV and other British television channels in lessons
• , which allows schools to show pupils top Hollywood, Bollywood and independent films
• the (MPLC), which gives schools access to movies and programmes created by more than 400 film and television producers and distributers
• the , which allows schools to use newspaper and magazine cuttings in lessons

Schools Minister David Laws said:

We are committed to reducing costs and unnecessary red tape for schools. 皇冠体育appse new licences will allow schools to focus their resources further on providing an excellent education for young people.

Jo Warner-Howard, head of education at the Copyright Licensing Agency, said:

Schools were telling us that they wanted us to make licensing simpler and easier and we listened to them. 皇冠体育app change will relieve local authorities and academies of the responsibility for administration of licensing.

皇冠体育app Department for Education is committed to reducing the administrative burden on teachers to free them up to teach. 皇冠体育app department has:

• cut the volume of unnecessary guidance issued to schools by 75%, equating to the removal of more than 21,000 website pages
• scrapped the burdensome self-evaluation forms for school inspections
• simplified complex financial school budget restrictions

A streamlined inspection framework has also been introduced. Neither the department nor Ofsted now expect teachers to produce written lesson plans for every lesson.

This announcement follows the government鈥檚 recommendations in the Hargreaves Review to simplify the licensing process for copyright users in the digital age.

Notes to editors

1. 皇冠体育app licences apply to all state schools, including local authority maintained schools, academies, and other types of schools such as pupil referral units (PRUs) and special schools.

2. 皇冠体育app savings of moving to paying for the ERA, Filmbank and MPLC licenses centrally is estimated by the Department for Education to be 拢6.73 million in the 2014 to 2015 financial year. 皇冠体育appse savings are made up of the discounts negotiated on the cost of the licenses themselves and the savings in administrative costs of local authorities and schools, who previously negotiated deals themselves.

3. 皇冠体育app central licences that have been in existence since April 2013 are the licence, which gives schools the right to photocopy books, magazines and journals, make digital copies by scanning or re-typing for distribution to pupils, parents, teachers or governors, and make copies of content from digital material including CD ROMs, electronic workbooks, online journals and included websites; and the School Printed Music Licence, which covers the copying of a school鈥檚 sheet music for curricular and extra-curricular school activities, making arrangements of musical works and distributing licensed copies to school members.

4. 皇冠体育app Hargreaves Review was an independent review commissioned by the Prime Minister in November 2010 to look at how the intellectual property framework supports growth and innovation. Chaired by Professor Ian Hargreaves and assisted by a panel of experts, the review reported to government in May 2011 making recommendations for government. This included a recommendation to simplify the licensing process for copyright users in the digital age. Further details about the review can be found on the website.