[CALMAP:355] Re: copyright - guidelines; users requesting copyright release

From: Julie Sweetkind-Singer (sweetkind@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 12:12:33 PST

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    Mary,

    This is excellent. Thanks for the resources.

    Julie

    At 08:58 AM 1/9/2008, Mary Larsgaard wrote:
    >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
    >

    Julie Sweetkind-Singer
    Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
    Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
    397 Panama Mall, M/C 2211
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA 94305
    sweetkind@stanford.edu
    Phone: 650-725-1102



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