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Re: Licensing



Based upon my experience with the university press which published my recent book, I suspect that it is becoming commonplace for publishers to suggest to authors that they request world rights to use any illustrations or to quote from original documents.  None of the institutions to which I wrote using that wording agreed to world rights.  I seem to remember the press telling me that would likely be the case, but I should ask for it anyway.
It seems to me that while the publishers/producers can ask for world rights, any archives can grant only one time use if that is all the archives wants to grant.  
In most cases in making my requests I used a form letter following the model suggested by the press.  One or two institutions returned a form to be filled out.  The remaining ones simply signed off on one copy of the the form letter I sent them and retained the second copy for their files.
Charles

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