The aim of this blog post is to describe and actually follow the process to obtain permission to display original material.
The obvious choice for me was to find a photo and go through the process of:
- Finding the copyright owner,
- Send request in writing seeking permission to display/publish the photo,
- wait for response, and
- display the photo in accordance with any directions given by the copyright owner.
I found this beautiful photo, which brought back a memory of my childhood, on Martin Pot’s website martybugs.net.
"Holiday Cottage"
Photo by Martin Pot (http://martybugs.net/blog), used with permission
I sent the below in an email to Martin seeking his permission to display his photo on this blog.
“Hi Martin,
I am not sure if you remember, but I emailed you a couple of weeks ago about your gallery software. I remembered that I got to your site via a google search for my copyright class in Website Design, which brings me to….
I have an assignment for this copyright class to find some original material on the internet and then ask the copyright holder for permission to display the material on our Copyright Class blog.
If you are indeed the copyright holder (which I have assumed to be) I would like to ask for permission to display your photo “IMG_15877 – Holiday Cottage”. I chose this photo as it brings back memories of staying in one of those cottages a while ago (or rather many years ago!!).
I will only display this photo on my blog at www.aptafeblog.wordpress.com as a part of my assignment, I will not be using this photo in any other way.
If you could agree to me using your photo I would very much appreciate it and I have no problems with acknowledging you as the photographer if you wish. Also, may I display your email response as part of the assignment?
Kind Regards
Amanda Perryman”
I received the following response in reply from Martin allowing me permission to display his photo and detailing his conditions of its use.
“Martin Pot wrote, On 30/08/2009 8:41 AM:
> Hi Amanda.
> I’m happy for you to use that image (IMG_15877), providing you adhere
> to the following conditions:
>
> -reproduction rights are granted to are granted to yourself for
> IMG_15877 for inclusion on your website, as described in your email
> -copyright of the image is retained by Martin Pot at all times
> -appropriate credit to be included with the image, and the credit must
> include the wording “photo by Martin Pot (http://martybugs.net/blog),
> used with permission”
> -image to be used for agreed use only
> -reproduction rights are strictly limited to those described above,
> and must be re-negotiated for any further use of the image
> -reproduction rights granted are to yourself only, and may not be
> assigned, nor may this image be loaned or transferred to third-parties
>
> You are also welcome to display my email response as part of your
> assignment.
>
> Regards,
> Martin.
> http://martybugs.net/blog“
I have also sent an email to Martin thanking him for the permission to use the photo and a link to my post.
This concludes the process of finding and publishing original material.
Amanda
