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Licensing Images and Book Covers with Scholastic, Inc.

Steven Diamond, Director of the Digital Photography Dept. of Scholastic Inc. Publishers very kindly spoke to us by phone about the work he does at Scholastic licensing the images, photographs, and pictures in their books and/or book covers. He gave us permission to show some of our favorite Goosebumps Book covers from the "READER BEWARE...YOU CHOOSE THE SCARE!" Series by R.L. Stine. This is just Mr. Diamond's opinion and not an official Scholastic, Inc.'s position on copyright. He was recommended to us by Lou Giansante formerly from New York Kids Radio station WNYC 820 AM and he is now working for Scholastic, Inc. Thank you gentlemen!!!!

People own property. They own homes, cars, toys, clothing, food, land, etc. The most important and valuable of all is their rights. Nobody can take them away from you. One type of right that is easy to take away are Art Rights. With a click of a mouse you can have one of Picasso's many famous works right in front of you!! Click, you can be in an Indian palace. I think that counterfeiters copy these images because they want to make money. They know that most people will not bring them to court because of the high cost of legal fees.

At Scholastic, Inc. we license our photographs and pictures out to many different companies. If it is a picture from let's say, a book we need to come up with an agreement that profits both us and them. For example, we make a BIG profit from licensing out our "Goosebumps" pictures to other companies that sell merchandise (toys, clothing, house appliances, etc...).

I have given permission for Think Quest Junior team J001570 to use the above pictures of "Goosebumps" book covers which are published by Scholastic, Inc.