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