When to Request Permission

Requst copyright permission when:

  • An article from a journal is needed for more than one semester.
  • Multiple articles from one journal issue are needed for reserve.
  • One chapter of a book is needed for more than one semester.
  • Multiple chapters of a book are needed for reserve.
  • The material is neither owned by the professor nor by the libraries.
  • The material is designed to be consumed in the classroom, such as standardized tests, exercises and workbooks.
  • The material is a "do-it-yourself" coursepack, i.e. when a collective work or anthology is created by photocopying a number of copyrighted articles and excerpts to be purchased and used together as the basic text for a course. (One copy of a commercially prepared coursepack does not require permission.)

Copyright permission is ordinarily not  required for:

  • Exams
  • Lecture notes
  • Student papers
  • Government publications
  • Works in the public domain
  • One copy of an article from a journal issue
  • One copy of a chapter from a book
  • Multiple print copies if the number of copies is reasonable in light of the number of students enrolled