Preditors and Editors ™
A guide to publishers and publishing services for serious writers since 1997.
Permissions:
When seeking permission from a copyright holder, it is best to include key information. This may vary from holder to holder, but the following may serve as a general guide of what to expect. You should, however, follow the copyright holder's guidelines when those are available.
Sometimes, you will encounter situations where the copyright is administered by one entity and owned by another. In such situations, you will often have to obtain permission from both the copyright owner and the copyright administrator.
- Identify exactly the work you wish to copy from, along with the year it was copyrighted and other appropriate information such as the copyright owner's name. Specify precisely what you want to copy from that work.
- Identify yourself and give your contact information. A copyright holder can't very well grant permission to someone who can't be contacted.
- Identify any organization you belong to if that organization is involved in using the permission.
- State how you intend to use the copy. For instance, if you wish permission to use a song to identify a villain in a movie you are filming, the copyright holder might be averse to having his song, regardless of its title, used in that manner. Similarly, having brief passages from a written work or song quoted by one of your fictional characters might not sit well with the holder.
- State how many copies you intend to make.