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Permission Process
Check to see if work is in the Public Domain
Determine Ownership
Apply Fair Use Guidelines
Request Permission from Owner
Request alternative uses of work
...if copyright owner cannot be located...
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Assess the risk of using the work without permission
Use alternative materials
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Print Materials
Possible owners include authors, creators, publishers, corporations and heirs.

Publisher of Work
Permission Resources

U.S. Copyright Office
Web site: http://www.copyright.gov
Phone:(202) 707-3000

Copyright Clearance Center
Web site: http://www.copyright.com
Email:info@copyright.com
Phone:(978)-646-2600
FAX: (978)646-8600

Sample Cost Check Searches

Still Images Permission Resources
Possible owners include photographer (not work-for-hire), artist, publisher, person represented in image, company owning photo, company with rights to license digital reproductions.

Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Web site: http://www.arsny.com
Email: info@arsny.com
Phone: (212)420-9160
FAX: (212)420-9286
Artists Represented List: http://www.arsny.com/complete.html

Corbis, Inc.
Web site: http://www.corbis.com
Corbis Rights Clearances Contact information: http://pro.corbis.com/creative/services/rights/default.asp
Phone: (800)260-0444


Audio
Possible owners include producer, production company, performers, composer, recording label, distributors, interviewee (oral histories). Composition rights (license for public performance of composition itself) and Recording Rights( license for public performance of the recorded music) are different.

Music -- Performance Rights
Permission Resources

American Society of Composers, Authors (ASCAP)

Web site: http://www.ascap.com
Email: info@ascap.com
Phone: (212)621-6000


Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

Web site: http;//www.BMI.com
E mail: genlic@bmi.com
Phone: (800)925-8451

Society of European State Authors and Composers (SESAC)
Email: license@sesac.com
Phone: (800)826-9996 (Nashville) (212)586-3450 (New York)


Music Sound Recordings Permission Resource
Harry Fox Agency
Web site: http://www.nmpa.org/hfa.html

Film/Video Permission Resources
Possible owners include distributors, interviewee, actors, screenwriter, director, location.

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation(MPLC)_
Web site: http://www.mplc.com
Email:info@mplc.com
Phone: (800)462-8855

Copyright Clearance Center
Web site: http://www.copyright.com
Email:info@copyright.com
Phone:(978)-646-2600
FAX: (978)646-8600

Agent representation
Web site: http://www.whorepresents.com/
Email: info@whoRepresents.com
Phone:(778)-881-1643

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
Web site:amia@amianet.org
Email:http://www.amianet.org/
Phone:(323)463-1500
FAX: (323)463-1506