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Preparing Your Permissions Request: Where to Start

Jun 24, 2024 - Lesley-Anne Longo

So, you’ve determined you do need to request permission for something you’re using in your book. It might be a poem, it could be an excerpt of text, o...

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Want to Reprint That? Get Permission First! What Authors Need to Know About Copyright Clearances

Jun 10, 2024 - Lesley-Anne Longo & Beth McAuley

Anyone writing a manuscript—be it a book, a journal article, a blog, a newsletter—has to understand only one thing about wanting to reprint material t...

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What You Need to Know About Your Book's Copyright Page

Jun 05, 2024 - Michael Bedford

Self-publishing opportunities allow authors to reach their audiences on their own schedules and through their own publishing initiatives. An important...

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Your Book's Copyright Page: What You Need to Know

Aug 02, 2023 - Michael Bedford

Self-publishing opportunities allow authors to reach their audiences on their own schedules and through their own publishing initiatives. An important...

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You Need Permission to Reprint That! What Authors Need to Know About Copyright Clearances

Jul 05, 2023 - Lesley-Anne Longo & Beth McAuley

Anyone writing a manuscript—be it a book, a journal article, a blog, a newsletter—has to understand only one thing about wanting to reprint material t...

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Can You Use that Material? The Ambiguity of Wikipedia and the Finer Details of Fair Dealing

Jun 23, 2021 - Nadine Bachan

In this blog from former editor Nadine Bachan, she sheds a little light on the not-so-clear complexities of Wikipedia copyright and the real deal behi...

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2 Basic Steps to Preparing Your Permissions Request

Mar 02, 2021 - Lesley-Anne Longo

So, you’ve determined you do need to request permission for something you’re using in your book. It might be a poem, it could be an excerpt of text, o...

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Creating the Copyright Page for Your Book: What You Need to Know

Feb 24, 2021 - Michael Bedford

Self-publishing opportunities allow authors to reach their audiences on their own schedules and through their own publishing initiatives. An important...

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Using Social Media Icons: What Copyright Allows You to Do

Feb 09, 2021 - Lesley-Anne Longo

Newsletters, websites, business cards, advertisements — social media icons are everywhere. These icons are shorthand symbols that can send users to yo...

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You Need Permission to Reprint That! What This Means & Why Authors Must Pay Attention to It

Feb 03, 2021 - Beth McAuley & Lesley-Anne Longo

Copyright and permissions can be a tricky subject for any author to navigate. At TEC, we often get questions and queries from authors about whther the...

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You Need Permission to Reprint That! What This Means & Why Authors Must Pay Attention to It

May 08, 2019 - Beth McAuley & Lesley-Anne Longo

Anyone writing a manuscript — be it a book, a journal article, a blog, a newsletter — has to understand only one thing about wanting to reprint materi...

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Permissions & Copyright: The Reasons Why They're Important

Sep 02, 2015 - Beth McAuley

September 2015   We are reposting this blog from 2010 because the issue of copyright is still relevant, and the research challenges we faced wi...

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On Organization: Packing, Permissions, and Persistence

Dec 20, 2012 - Jessica Mifsud

Two big events are happening for me this month. The first is that I’m a dozen items and a handful of loose ends away from completing the gigan...

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From the Desk of the Permissions Editor: Trial and Error

Dec 27, 2011 - Nadine Bachan

When the year is coming to an end, it is often the time to wrap things up. That being said, this will be the last blog in the Permissions Editor ...

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From The Desk of the Permissions Editor: The Ambiguity of Wikipedia and the Finer Details of Fair Dealing

Nov 10, 2011 - Nadine Bachan

In the second installment of this blog series, I’d like to shed a little light on the not-so-clear complexities of Wikipedia copyright and the r...

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From The Desk of the Permissions Editor: A New TEC Blog Series

Sep 23, 2011 - Nadine Bachan

In her last blog, “The Texture of Technology,” Beth touched on the subject of e-books. Talk about e-books always prompts me to think about...

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Navigating the World of Permissions Editing

Jun 10, 2011 - Nadine Bachan

Plagiarism has become rampant in this age of instantly accessible information. There have been countless cases of stolen words, images and art, from...

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Permissions & Copyright: The Reasons Why They're Important

Jul 26, 2010 - Beth McAuley

September 2015 We are reposting this blog from 2010 because the issue of copyright is still relevant, and the research challenges we faced with...