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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