 |
|
-Books- |
| Return to Home Page | Go to Site Map | Acknowledgments | Sign the Guestbook |
| Return to Thinkquest | Go to Links Page | How to Ask Permission | Read the Guestbook |
| Sometimes you might
like to use illustrations, book covers or parts or a book, magazine or
newspapers on your web site. Companies that publish things have whole
departments that work on granting permission for using their work.
It is very important to them and they are very careful about what you use,
how you use it and how long you use it. You can see some examples
of the letters we sent the and the responses we received. We hope
they help you with your projects.
Write to us about what happened to your project
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| If you click on the book covers ABOVE you can see how the publisher wanted the book to be cited, read a little about the book and my opinion of it. |
| Here is some advice from a pamphlet from the Office of Copyright
entitled "How to Obtain Permissions" It was taken from the Association
of American Publishers' booklet entitled "Photocopying by Academic, Public
and Non-Profit Research Libraries" and "Explaining the New Copyright Law"
printed by the U.S. Printing Office 1987 (Before the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright
Law):
"The page with the copyright notice is useful in determining the actual copyright holder ( particularly in the case of a paperback edition "because the material is, unless marked "original edition", probably still the property of the first edition publisher. Some materials, graphs, charts or photographs may not be the property of the immediate publisher or author and thus permission to duplicate cannot be granted by the publishing house. The request to a publisher should have the following facts: 2. Exact materials to be used, giving amount, page numbers, chapters and, if possible a photocopy of the material. 3. Number of copies to be made. 4. The use to be made of the materials 5. Form of distribution (classroom, newsletter, etc.) 6. Whether or not the materials are to be sold 7. Type of reprint (ditto, photocopy, offset, typeset) 8. Don't ask for blanket permission, be specific in your request. The request should be sent, together with a
stamped self-addressed return envelope to the Permissions Department of
a Publisher. Publishers addresses are in books in the Public Library:
Because each request must be checked closely
by the publisher, it is advisable to allow enough lead time to obtain permission
before the materials are needed. Send all requests for a project
at the same time.
|
|
|
Computer #1 says: Ten copycats
were sitting in a boat, and one jumped out. How many were left?
Computer #2 says: How many? Computer #1 says: None, they all were copycats! Computer #2 says: Now I remember that joke! Isn't it from the "Weekly Reader, I Can Read Book" called "Ten Copycats In A Boat And Other Riddles" by Alvin Schwartz, published by Harper and Row, copyright© 1980. Computer #1 says: You left out that the book was illustrated by Marc Simont. |
  |
Would you like to write to publishers of newspapers and magazines for
your website? Most of them have websites now such as "The New York Times"
and "Daily News". The best way to contact them is by e-mail. On the next
page you will se an example of a writing to the "New York Times"!!
|
by
.gif){kind=small}
my friends call me Mad 
The
friends leave a lot of telephone messages at the beginning of each chapter.
Then the characters talk about the message and then do something about
it. 
funny 
