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Copyright - GET PERMISSIONS

PERMISSION FORM TO USE MEDIA
Sample Copyright Permission Letters.
Permission to Use Graphics or Create Links.

SCHOOL ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES

PICTURE RELEASE FORM
K -12 Acceptable Use Policy Release Form for publishing Students Pictures on the Web.

U.S. Copyright Office - Identifies who owns movies, books and other works

Issues relating to audio, visual, digital and paper based materials mostly deals with US copyright laws but is a useful guide.

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER, a nonprofit group manages licenses for the reuse of published material, has created an annual copyright license for colleges. The license will let institutions pay a blanket fee to use copyrighted material instead of having to secure the rights to such content on a case-by-case basis.
E- RESERVE:The blanket fee will make it easier for professors and librarians to place articles and book excerpts in course packets, in electronic reserves, and on course Web sites, officials at the copyright center said.

RIGHTS CLEARANCE ORGANIZATIONS for text, images, music, etc.

How To File A Takedown Notice
What to do when someone takes content, whether written, images, audio or video.
The content

  • Text (TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCx, PDF, PPT, PAGES, etc.)
  • Images, pictures & photos (BMP, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, RAW, TIFF, etc.)
  • Video (MPG, AVI, RM, MOV, Quicktime,
  • Windows Media Player, RealPlayer)
    Music & audio (AIF, AU, MP3, MP4, MID, WAV, etc. )
  • Images found on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr

If you can not find the DMCA agent contact on the website, search the US Copyright Office list of DMCA agents. While it's supposed to be current, it may not be due to the organization not updating their information with the US Copyright Office.