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
- 4.19Retention of rights by non-US licensors
- Copyright and the Public Domain
- 4.20Copyright duration before 1978
- 4.21Lengthening of copyright duration in 1978
- 4.22US government works
- 4.23Uses of public-domain works
- Duration of Copyright for Works Created After 1977
- 4.24“Life plus seventy”
- 4.25Works made for hire
- 4.26Anonymous and pseudonymous works
- Duration of Copyright for Works Created Before 1978
- 4.27Pre-1978 unpublished works
- 4.28Pre-1978 works published in the United States
- 4.29New copyright for new editions
- 4.30Pre-1978 works published outside the United States
- 4.31Eligibility for restoration
- Renewing Copyright in Pre-1978 Works
- 4.32Benefits of renewal
- 4.33Renewal by the author
- 4.34Renewal if the author was deceased
- Assigning or Licensing Copyright
- 4.35Subdividing a copyright
- 4.36Exclusive versus nonexclusive licenses
- 4.37Goals of the parties to a license
- 4.38Payment
- 4.39Termination of transfers and licenses
- Copyright Notice
- 4.40Changes to the rules
- 4.41Three different regimes
- Content of Notice
- 4.42Three elements of the notice
- 4.43Copyright notices on unpublished works
- 4.44Name used in the notice
- 4.45Placement of notice
- 4.46United States government materials
- 4.47Notice on derivative works
- 4.48Correcting mistakes
- Deposit and Registration
- 4.49Deposit requirements
- 4.50Registration forms and fees
- 4.51Need for accuracy and candor
- 4.52Benefits of registration
- 4.53Registering successive editions
- 4.54Correcting or amplifying a registration
- The Publishing Agreement
- 4.55Basic rights
- New Books
- 4.56Basic book-contract provisions
- 4.57Option clauses
- 4.58Other contracts
- Journal Articles
- 4.59Transfers of rights
- 4.60Less than full rights
- 4.61Journal editors
- Edited Compilations
- 4.62Edited books
- 4.63Symposium proceedings
- Theses and Dissertations
- 4.64Copyright and graduate student work
- Open Access
- 4.65Open-access publishing models
- 4.66Green open access
- 4.67Gold open access
- 4.68Diamond open access
- 4.69University licenses
- 4.70Public-access policies
- 4.71Authors’ use of their own works
- 4.72Creative Commons licenses
- 4.73How to apply a Creative Commons license
- 4.74Types of Creative Commons licenses
- Self-Publishing
- 4.75Self-publishing agreements
- The Author’s Responsibilities
- 4.76Author’s copyright warranties
- 4.77Other warranties
- 4.78The role of counsel
- Obtaining Permissions
- 4.79General principles for obtaining permissions
- 4.80Author’s role in obtaining permissions
- 4.81Interview and photo releases
- 4.82Author’s own work
- 4.83Fees and record keeping
- 4.84Permissions beyond the immediate use
- 4.85Permissions for unpublished works
- 4.86The missing copyright owner
- 4.87Noncopyright restrictions on archives
- Fair Use: Quoting Without Permission
- 4.88Overview of the legal doctrine of fair use
- 4.89Validity of “rules of thumb”
- 4.90A few general rules related to fair use
- 4.91Epigraphs and song lyrics
- 4.92Fair use of unpublished works
- 4.93Paraphrasing
- 4.94Pictorial and graphic materials
- 4.95Charts, tables, and graphs
- 4.96Importance of attribution
- 4.97Unnecessary permissions
- 4.98Chicago’s fair use guidelines
- Requesting Permission
- 4.99The permissions process
- 4.100Information to include when requesting permission
- Illustrations
- 4.101Rights holders
- 4.102Stock agencies and image archives
- 4.103Information to include when requesting permission
- 4.104Requesting image descriptions
- 4.105Fees
- Acknowledging Sources
- 4.106Credit lines
- 4.107Acknowledgments sections
- Fees
- 4.108Responsibility for payment
- 4.109Anthologies
- Subsidiary Rights and Permissions
- Granting Permission
- 4.110Handling requests in house
- 4.111The rights database
- Handling Subsidiary Rights
- 4.112Categories of subsidiary rights
- 4.113Electronic-rights licensing
- 4.114Economic considerations
- 4.115Permissions