[SIGCIS-Members] a few comments regarding copyright

[Dana A. Freiburger]

Greetings,

Please let me suggest one very helpful book in this area:

Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property
by Susan M. Bielstein. 188 pages.  University of Chicago Press.

Cloth $30.00
ISBN: 9780226046372
Published July 2006

Paper $15.00
ISBN: 9780226046389
Published July 2006


Also, I would echo James Cortada's comments.  Keep good records,
be nice, and give yourself plenty of time to obtain any needed
permissions.  I've been the Illustrations Editor for the History
of Cartography Project for 11 years now and it took me nearly
two years to wrap up permissions for the over 1000 images used
in our last volume.  Some were easy, some were really painful,
some were free, some put a big dent in our budget.  It had to
be done as our publisher would not print the book until I gave
them copies of the signed permission forms/letters from the 250
sources worldwide.  Hoping this is useful, cheers,

Dana Freiburger, Doctoral Candidate
History of Science Dept, UW-Madison