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Do not leave permissions until the last minute. It usually takes weeks and sometimes months to identify rights holders, negotiate fees and other terms, and obtain countersigned agreements. Use the permissions log to track requests and responses. Press staff will review this log and copies of the permissions documentation before putting your manuscript into production. The more thorough your log, the less likely we will ask for anything more from you.
If you are new to requesting permissions or uncertain about when you need to do so, please read our copyright basics.
If you have the basics down and still have questions, you are in good company. See our list of additional resources on copyrights below.
Licensing MSU Press Content
Permissions Log Instructions
Sample Permissions Request
Resources
- Association of University Presses Copyright & Permissions Resources
- Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
- Susan M. Bielstein, Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006).
- Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
- Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States
- William S. Strong, The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide, 5th ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
- United States Copyright Office
- The WATCH File: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders