• Table
  of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Index

4 : Rights and Permissions

• Introduction
• 4.1       Overview
• Copyright Law and the Licensing of Rights
• 4.2       Relevant law
• 4.3       How copyright comes into being
• 4.4       Registration not required
• 4.5       Original expression
• 4.6       Author the original owner
• Varieties of Authorship
• 4.7       Individual and joint authors
• 4.8       Collective works
• Works Made for Hire
• 4.9       Employer as author
• 4.10     The three categories of work made for hire
• 4.11     Ineligible works
• 4.12     Joint authorship
• Rights of the Copyright Owner
• 4.13     Rights of reproduction and distribution
• 4.14     Other copyright rights
• 4.15     Moral rights: integrity of copyright management information
• 4.16     Trademark protection of titles
• 4.17     Basic versus subsidiary rights
• 4.18     Author retention of subsidiary rights
• Copyright and the Public Domain
• 4.19     Copyright duration before 1978
• 4.20     Lengthening of copyright duration in 1978
• 4.21     Uses of public-domain works
• Duration of Copyright for Works Created after 1977
• 4.22     “Life plus seventy”
• 4.23     Works made for hire
• 4.24     Anonymous and pseudonymous works
• Duration of Copyright for Works Created before 1978
• 4.25     Pre-1978 unpublished works
• 4.26     Pre-1978 published U.S. works
• 4.27     New copyright for new editions
• 4.28     Pre-1978 published foreign works
• 4.29     Definition of “foreign”
• Renewing Copyright in Pre-1978 Works
• 4.30     Benefits of renewal
• 4.31     Renewal by the author
• 4.32     Renewal if the author is deceased
• Assigning or Licensing Copyright
• 4.33     Subdividing a copyright
• 4.34     Exclusive versus nonexclusive licenses
• 4.35     Goals of the parties to a license
• 4.36     Payment
• 4.37     Termination of transfers
• Copyright Notice
• 4.38     The old rules
• 4.39     Three different regimes
• Content of Notice
• 4.40     Three elements of the notice
• 4.41     Name used in the notice
• 4.42     Placement of notice
• 4.43     United States government materials
• 4.44     Correcting mistakes
• Deposit and Registration
• 4.45     Deposit requirements
• 4.46     Registration forms and fees
• 4.47     Need for accuracy and candor
• 4.48     Benefits of registration
• The Publishing Agreement
• 4.49     Basic rights
• New Books
• 4.50     Basic book-contract provisions
• 4.51     Option clauses
• 4.52     Edited works
• 4.53     Other contracts
• Journal Articles
• 4.54     Transfers of rights
• 4.55     Less than full rights
• 4.56     Journal editors
• Contributions to Symposia
• 4.57     Symposium proceedings
• The Publisher’s Responsibilities
• Copyright Tasks
• 4.58     Notice and registration
• 4.59     Licensing of subsidiary rights
• Handling Subsidiary Rights
• 4.60     Categories
• 4.61     Electronic-rights licensing
• 4.62     Authors’ electronic use of their own works
• 4.63     Economic considerations
• Granting Permission
• 4.64     Handling permission requests
• 4.65     Author’s role in licensing
• The Author’s Responsibilities
• 4.66     Author’s warranties
• Obtaining Permissions
• 4.67     General principles
• 4.68     Author’s role in obtaining permissions
• 4.69     Author’s own work
• 4.70     Fees and record keeping
• 4.71     Permissions beyond the immediate use
• 4.72     Unpublished works
• 4.73     The missing copyright owner
• 4.74     Noncopyright restrictions on archives
• Fair Use: Quoting without Permission
• 4.75     Overview of the legal doctrine
• 4.76     Validity of “rules of thumb”
• 4.77     A few general rules
• 4.78     Epigraphs and interior monologues
• 4.79     Unpublished works
• 4.80     Paraphrasing
• 4.81     Pictorial and graphic materials
• 4.82     Charts, tables, and graphs
• 4.83     Importance of attribution
• 4.84     Unnecessary permissions
• Library and Educational Copying as Fair Use
• 4.85     The Copyright Act
• 4.86     Library photocopying
• 4.87     Educational photocopying
• 4.88     Digitizing and automating the permissions process
• Requesting Permission
• 4.89     Information required
• 4.90     Sample permissions letters
• Illustrations
• 4.91     Rights holders
• 4.92     Stock agencies and image archives
• 4.93     Information required
• 4.94     Fees
• Acknowledging Sources
• 4.95     Credit lines
• 4.96     Acknowledgments sections
• Fees
• 4.97     Responsibility for payment
• 4.98     Anthologies