Following up from our 12/17/2007 meeting -
here's an excellent summary of when
items published in U.S. are in copyright:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/copyrightterm.pdf
Morgan Cowles found this and I use it often.
For when users are requesting copyright release -
in our case this is mainly when the user
needs a scan of the copyrighted item.
We do try to find an email address
for them; some publishers (such as the Ordnance
Survey) even have copyright-permission webpages.
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/copyright/
The person requesting permission
needs to email in the language of
the person/agency from whom permission
is requested; this hasn't been a problem
since it's mainly grad students and they
do indeed know the language of
the country where their research area is located.
Here's a sample email; it's to a local
air-photo firm, that always says
yes to this sort of request. I've taken out the names.
For persons working on theses/dissertations,
I generally recommend that the student
emphasize that the student won't publish
the scan in thesis, periodical article, or Website.
---snip---
Dear ...,
I'm a graduate student at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science
and Management and I wanted to obtain permission from you to use a few
images for my Landscape Ecology class. I'm doing a project on the
landscape ecology of Fairview Gardens, and I'd like to show the class
land use changes from the past 80 years. This is only for in class use
and I will not be publishing/posting any of the images.
The images I'm interested in are:
NOS-82-EC, #.0139 (1982)
PW-SB-8, #24 (1992)
PW-SB-15, #94 (2005)
Let me know if I have permission to use these images.
Thank you,
...
----snip---
Mary
-- Mary Lynette Larsgaard Director, Map Library Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010 USA mary@library.ucsb.edu voice: 805/893-4049; 2779, reference desk fax: 805/893-8799
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