4: Rights, Permissions, and Copyright Administration
- Overview
- 4.1The scope of this chapter
- Copyright Law and the Licensing of Rights
- 4.2Relevant law
- 4.3How copyright comes into being
- 4.4Registration and notice not required
- 4.5Original expression
- 4.6Author the original owner
- Varieties of Authorship
- 4.7Individual and joint authors
- 4.8Collective works
- Works Made for Hire
- 4.9Employer as author
- 4.10The three categories of work made for hire
- 4.11Ineligible works
- 4.12Joint authorship
- Rights of the Copyright Owner
- 4.13Rights of reproduction, distribution, and display
- 4.14Derivative work and performance rights
- 4.15Moral rights; integrity of copyright management information
- 4.16Trademark protection of titles and other elements
- 4.17Basic versus subsidiary rights
- 4.18Author retention of subsidiary rights
- Copyright and the Public Domain
- 4.19Copyright duration before 1978
- 4.20Lengthening of copyright duration in 1978
- 4.21US government works
- 4.22Uses of public-domain works
- Duration of Copyright for Works Created after 1977
- 4.23“Life plus seventy”
- 4.24Works made for hire
- 4.25Anonymous and pseudonymous works
- Duration of Copyright for Works Created before 1978
- 4.26Pre-1978 unpublished works
- 4.27Pre-1978 works published in the United States
- 4.28New copyright for new editions
- 4.29Pre-1978 works published outside the United States
- 4.30Eligibility for restoration
- Renewing Copyright in Pre-1978 Works
- 4.31Benefits of renewal
- 4.32Renewal by the author
- 4.33Renewal if the author is deceased
- Assigning or Licensing Copyright
- 4.34Subdividing a copyright
- 4.35Exclusive versus nonexclusive licenses
- 4.36Goals of the parties to a license
- 4.37Payment
- 4.38Termination of transfers and licenses
- Copyright Notice
- 4.39Changes to the rules
- 4.40Three different regimes
- Content of Notice
- 4.41Three elements of the notice
- 4.42Name used in the notice
- 4.43Placement of notice
- 4.44United States government materials
- 4.45Notice on derivative works
- 4.46Correcting mistakes
- Deposit and Registration
- 4.47Deposit requirements
- 4.48Registration forms and fees
- 4.49Need for accuracy and candor
- 4.50Benefits of registration
- The Publishing Agreement
- 4.51Basic rights
- New Books
- 4.52Basic book-contract provisions
- 4.53Option clauses
- 4.54Other contracts
- Journal Articles
- 4.55Transfers of rights
- 4.56Less than full rights
- 4.57Journal editors
- Edited Compilations
- 4.58Edited books
- 4.59Symposium proceedings
- Theses and Dissertations
- 4.60Copyright and graduate student work
- Alternative Publishing Arrangements
- 4.61Open-access publishing models
- 4.62Creative Commons licenses
- 4.63Self-publishing agreements
- Subsidiary Rights and Permissions
- Handling Subsidiary Rights
- 4.64Categories of subsidiary rights
- 4.65Electronic-rights licensing
- 4.66Authors’ electronic use of their own works
- 4.67University licenses
- 4.68Public-access policies
- 4.69Economic considerations
- Granting Permission
- 4.70Handling permission requests
- 4.71The rights database
- The Author’s Responsibilities
- 4.72Author’s copyright warranties
- 4.73Other warranties
- 4.74The role of counsel
- Obtaining Permissions
- 4.75General principles for obtaining permissions
- 4.76Author’s role in obtaining permissions
- 4.77Interview and photo releases
- 4.78Author’s own work
- 4.79Fees and record keeping
- 4.80Permissions beyond the immediate use
- 4.81Permissions for unpublished works
- 4.82The missing copyright owner
- 4.83Non-copyright restrictions on archives
- Fair Use: Quoting without Permission
- 4.84Overview of the legal doctrine of fair use
- 4.85Validity of “rules of thumb”
- 4.86A few general rules related to fair use
- 4.87Epigraphs and interior monologues
- 4.88Fair use of unpublished works
- 4.89Paraphrasing
- 4.90Pictorial and graphic materials
- 4.91Charts, tables, and graphs
- 4.92Importance of attribution
- 4.93Unnecessary permissions
- 4.94Chicago’s fair-use guidelines
- Requesting Permission
- 4.95Information required
- 4.96Sample permissions letters
- 4.97Digitizing and automating the permissions process
- Illustrations
- 4.98Rights holders
- 4.99Stock agencies and image archives
- 4.100Information required
- 4.101Fees
- Acknowledging Sources
- 4.102Credit lines
- 4.103Acknowledgments sections
- Fees
- 4.104Responsibility for payment
- 4.105Anthologies