Please note: This guide does not provide legal advice. It is intended to give guidance about acceptable use of copyright protected materials.
If your copying does not meet the Copying Guidelines or Fair Dealing Requirements, you will need to seek permission from the copyright owner to copy the material for your course.
Contact the copyright owner yourself to obtain permission. Many publishers will have a Permissions Department or an online permission form that you can submit through their website. Otherwise you will need to write the copyright owner with your request (see template below).
NOTE: Obtaining clearances for materials can take a long time (up to 6-8 weeks) so submit your requests early.
Always keep a copy of any permissions you receive.
If permission was obtained to use a copyrighted work, include a “used with permission” statement when copying or distributing the work. For example:
© Pearson Education, Inc. 2013. Used with permission October 30, 2013.
Remember to always cite your source, regardless of whether or not you need to request permission.
You can use the template below to request permission directly from the copyright owner.
SUBJECT LINE: Copyright permission request for ARTICLE/IMAGE/OTHER
MONTH DATE, YEAR
Attention: PUBLISHER OR COPYRIGHT OWNER
I am requesting permission to
SCAN OR DIGITIZE AND DISTRIBUTE TO MY STUDENTS
UPLOAD TO A PASSWORD-PROTECTED ONLINE COURSE
PRINT IN A COURSEPACK
PRINT AS A CLASSROOM HANDOUT
the following:
Authors or creators of the work (year of the work). Title of the work. Journal or book or Website the work appears in. City of publication: Publisher. Volume, issue, pages of the work. URL of the work.
Approximately ## students will access the work during the TERM (DATE). The course name is CODE ### COURSE TITLE GOES HERE. No profit will be gained from the use of the work.
Please confirm if permission is granted to use the work. If you prefer to grant blanket permission for the work, please indicate that preference in your response otherwise I will renew my request as necessary.
Thank you.
INCLUDE OFFICAL KINGS SIGNATURE
Template adapted from University of Fraser Valley
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