Where to Locate Info On Copyright and Obtaining Permissions
Stephen Fishman’s _The Copyright Handbook
and
Richard Stim’s _Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off
According to Stephen Fishman’s _The Copyright Handbook_, Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 explicitly lays out the four use factors of:
“1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit education purposes
2. The nature of the copyrighted work
3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of the copyrighted work”
This is a direct quote from the Copyright Act of 1976
AP and Fair Use
AP files 7 DMCA takedown requests on blog
AP puts up web form to pay for permission to use as little as five words from their articles
The Daily Kos blog is telling the AP “make my day”
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Question: I’d be interested to know the best way to deal with museum stores: how to find out who to contact, what to send them, what kind of deals what they expect on discounts, and shipping, etc.
Answer: Most major museum stores are in the American Book Trade Directory. Send them the same marketing info you’d send a regular bookstore. Give them the exactly same terms you’d give a regular bookstore. That works fine.
Some belong to the Eastern National Parks & Monuments or one of several other chains, but it is the stores who decide what to carry, not the central office. You have to contact each store related to your books, it is useless to contact the central office in my experience.
Note that museums break down into what I call outdoor subjects (nature, geology, wildlife, etc.) and indoor subjects (art, history, etc.). Your book is likely to be suitable for only the one or the other kind of store. See the info in the American Book Trade directory and any book offerings the museum store has online, which a lot of them do now.”
Quote:
“Books are dangerous. They contain ideas.” Dick Margulis
Journalists-Writers Resource
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Search Engines
General stuff: www.dogpile.com
Names and books: www.google.com
If I can’t find it there I go to: www.ask.com
There are many specialist search engines:
Answers.com
Technorati
del.icio.us
Yahoo
Webster
Dogpile
Dictionary.com
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