CANADIAN PUBLISHERS/MEDIA COMPANIES

Toronto Sun
* The News Research Centre handles all copyright clearance, reprint, web posting requests and other permissions requests.
* Pricing variables include source of requests, e.g.: for-profit, non-profit or educational entities; volume of sales, either quantity of request of frequent client usage.
* Use of Sun content, whether text or image, is allowed for appropriate commercial, advertising or promotional purposes.
* Licensing/sales are world-wide.

Research and permissions services
http://www.torontosun.com/research.html

Photo sales, including personal use and permissions. Also available: editorial cartoons and customized front pages
http://canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/PhotoGallery/

TorStar
* TorStar Syndicate Services handles sales and licensing for text, photos, images, PDFs and page reprints for all TorStar properties, including The Toronto Star.
* TorStar uses an extensive price list for photo licensing and sales. Text license and reprint fees are more general. Other variables include size of the organization company or circulation size.
* Charitable and public education organizations may use content without a copyright fee. Research charges apply, however, at a discounted rate.
* Both text and images may be licensed for advertising or promotional use.
* Licensing/sales are world-wide. Sales outside of Canada are charged in U.S. dollars.
* Notes on international photo sales: In Canada, any photo taken prior to December 31, 1949 is now in the public domain and a publisher is free to sell or reproduce images from its archive from that period. However, if an image is licensed to any other country, local copyright laws apply. It is the client's responsibility to comply with its country's copyright laws.
* One licensing consideration is the author or photographer's "moral rights" which exist under Canadian copyright law, so context is important. TorStar may in certain circumstances contact the author or photographer before approving the sale.
* In some instances, "no credit" is requested instead of an attribution line. One example, political parties may license images for campaigns, but Torstar would not want a credit to be included.

Links to text and historic archives; information on licensing and syndicate sales
http://torstarsyndicate.com/

Books, photos, page reprints and gift items for personal use
http://thestar.com/starstore

The Globe & Mail
* The library handles permissions and licensing requests.
* Pricing varies on a case-by-case basis. There is no charge for non-profits, although a transmission fee may apply.
* Content is sold for editorial and promotional use. Articles, photos, charts and maps are sold to featured companies, associations or individuals, who in turn distribute them to their client base. However, each request is considered on a case-by-case basis. There are no differences in restrictions between text and images.
* Licensing/sales are world-wide.

Reprint and permissions requests are directed to the Permissions Editor from the Contact Us page
https://customer.globeandmail.ca/circcsContactUs.asp

Online request for page reprints
https://customer.globeandmail.ca/circcsReprintOrder.asp

Photo store
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/photostore/

CanWest
* The CanWest licensing department licenses corporations, government agencies, non-profits and charities to use news stories in their newsletters, e-mails to clients and on public web sites. The license agreement each client signs specifies what use they are entitled to make of the content and for how long.
* The licensing department does not handle photo requests, but photo editors at individual newspapers may do so from time to time.
* For educational institutions in Canada, a licensing agreement with Access Canada (formeryCANCOPY) or COPIBEC authorizes all non-commercial uses including downloads, redistribution and the making of multiple copies for research or instructional uses, subject to the requisite reporting and payment provisions of those agreements.
* Pricing is based on the market. Corporations and government pay the highest rates. Non-profits get a steep discount and charities don't pay. When purchasers are licensing multiple articles, volume discounts may apply.
* Licensing is primarily done for Canadian clients.

Copyright information and a link for submitting permissions requests for materials from CanWest multi-media properties, including the National Post, may be submitted via e-mail at
http://www.canada.com/aboutus/copyright.html

BROADCAST

CTV
* Permissions and licensing are handled by the Research and Archives Department.
* Types of usage allowed for CTV footage include documentaries, feature films, news broadcasts, entertainment features (broadcasters), sports productions, home video and DVD distribution, advertising, educational, film festivals, corporate in-house productions, charity productions, web sites, etc. Broadcast and documentaries are the strongest clients, although educational use is popular as well.
* Pricing decisions are based on competition in the field and are in the same range as other Canadian and U.S. broadcasters. Canadian-based clients are charged in Canadian dollars and all others in U.S. dollars. A search and transfer fee is charged up front, but the actual licensing fee for the amount of footage used is not done until the client reports back usage at the end of production.
* CTV-produced home videos include a copyright statement and the relevant CTV property bug. For stock footage purchased for production purposes, a two-page license outlining rights and restrictions must be signed by the client. No identifier is used on the footage itself, and no credit is expected, although some producers may include an "end-credit. If footage has been provided free of charge, a courtesy credit is requested.
* Written transcripts may be purchased directly from CTV at
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/1083346478121_78752354/

Transcripts also are available from LexisNexis, Factiva, CanWest Interactive (Infomart), Cedrom SNi and ProQuest.

Information on archive sales for both personal and production use
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/CorpTranscripts/transcripts.html

CBC
* Permissions and licensing are handled by the CBC Archives Department.
* Types of usage allowed for CBC video, radio and entertainment footage vary widely. Requests come from broadcasters, documentary or independent filmmakers, feature film makers and others. CBC material may be used in corporate videos, advertisements or commercials. When footage of a celebrity is used, the licensee is responsible for clearing additional rights held by the performer.
* Most requests come from North America, but sales are world-wide, with one strong market being Japan.
* Pricing is comparable to other broadcasters and is based on markets and territories.
* Typically CBC asks for credit in a production's end-credit list.
* Transcripts are sold via Bowdens.com as well as on commercial databases including CanWest (Infomart), LexisNexis, Dialog, and Cedrom-SNi's Newscan and Eureka databases.

For information on CBC's vast archives, including a virtual tour, go to:
http://www.cbc.ca/archivesales/

The searchable CBC Still Photo Collection  includes CBC production photography from the 1950s to the present, with the majority of stills from the 1950s-1970s. The actual collection is much larger than the digital collection online, although the collection is being digitized on an ongoing basis.

Information on photo licensing and personal sales
http://www.cbc.ca/stillphoto

CBC Shop
http://www.cbcshop.ca

CNN
* Licensing for CNN material is handled by ImageSource, a part of the CNN library.
* Requests run the gamut from student projects or corporate videos to documentary or feature films. Clients include, among many others, PBS productions such as FrontLine; production companies producing programming for the History Channel, Discovery and National Geographic. Web-site use is typically an add-on to other rights requested.
* Prices are sliding scale - the broader the rights, the higher the per-second charge. Non-profit status is taken into account whenever possible on that charge. In addition, to the per-second royalty charge, clients pay for research, tape transfer and overnight shipping.
* Standard term for rights is 10 years. Rights in perpetuity may be granted for an additional fee.
* Clients sign a standard licensing agreement which includes a verbal or end-credit requirement, "Courtesy CNN." However, there are instances in which the end-credit requirement is waived.
* VHS or BETASP dusbs are sent out with a visible timecode, effectively rendering the material useless for broadcast, until the client/licensee clears and pays for the material. The client is then sent a BETASP dub with audio timecode that matches the VHS/BITC screening dub.
* Transcripts are available via LexisNexis and Factiva.
Recent program transcripts available at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/

E-mail link to licensing department on Terms page says
"For web posting, reprint, transcript or licensing requests for CNN material, please contact licensing.agent@turner.com "

http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html

NPR
* Corporate photocopying and academic uses are handled via Copyright Clearance Center. All other licensing is handled internally.
* Detailed permissions page  which outlines policies and types of uses allowed and denied for audio, photos from npr.org or transcripts
http://www.npr.org/about/permissioninfo.html

* Online permissions form
http://www.npr.org/about/permissionform.html

* Transcripts sold on NPR site and are also available via LexisNexis, Factiva, Dialog and ProQuest
http://www.npr.org/transcripts/

* NPR Shop
http://shop.npr.org/


Resources on this page were compiled for a panel discussion " Managing Copyright and Leveraging Revenue in Your News Organization" at the annual conference of the News Division Special Libraries Assn.  in June 2005.  Panel members included Kathy Foley, San Antonio Express-News; Ginny Everett, Atlanta Journal Constitution; Peter Simmons, The New York Times; and Sharon Clairemont, Orange County Register.
To request updates or additions contact Kathy Foley.
Last Updated 6/2/2005