I need to put famous pictures, etc. in a research paper appendix,,.. my professor asked me to get copyright permission.. how should i go about doing this much less because it is for educational purposes only.. i thought citing it was enough.. as i am a student and am not even planning on submitting it to be published or anything like that :-(
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you need to copy the address in the address box and type it or paste it in and that is how you tell the teacher you took credit for the picture but gave credit to the person who acually took it.
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it's best to assume that all pictures are copyright protected coming from a website.\n\ni recommend contacting each website (if you REALLY want to do it correct) and request them allowing you to use the pictures.\n\nmostly, you need to just document where the picture is from.  you would either do that next to each picture on the slide, or have a slide at the end saying where each picture came from.
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If you don't have a record label to do these things for you, a good bet would be to get a creative commons licence for works you would like to distribute to the public domain. More information on this can be found at creativecommons.org.\n\nCreative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
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Didn't you sign a waiver or contract when you signed up for the show?  That should have disclosed the rights.\n\nYou can always contact the director of the show you appeared on and ask for permission or get approved copies for your use.  They should be willing to provide you with permission or an authorization.\n\nWithout their permission I don't believe you can use the images unless you crop everything out except yourself.
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Actually, what you want to do is publish it in a scientific journal - then the ideas are recognized as your own.  Also, it's faster than publishing a book, and more legitatmate than a copyright.\n\nHere's what you do.  You probably want to publish it either in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) or the Astronomical Journal (AJ).  Both can be accessed via www.aas.org .  You need to write up an article (a letter might be good - about 4 pages) and format it correctly (AASTex, a form of LaTeX).  If it's not correctly formatted, they won't read it - they don't have time to fix your formatting errors for you.  \n\nAfter you submit it correctly, the editor will read it over to make sure the material is appropriate for the journal and you're not an obvious quack.  Remember, you can't present your ideas without any evidence - you need evidence or math to back it up, or no one will listen.  If it passes the first review, they will send it out to be referreed by someone who knows the field well, who will decide if it should be accepted, fixed, or declined.  They will notify you as to what they decide.\n\nIf it is accepted, you will be expected to pay the publishing fees - normally, your university would cover that, but if you're doing this yourself, keep the article breif to keep the fees down.
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Call local public library, ask for research, and an experienced researcher will point you to the appropriate references to complete your assignment.  This approach will also enable you to site the origins of the content of your paper (a practice known as footnoting references).  ie. When you write your assignment paper, at the end, give credit to the sources you used to discuss the book!  Do not claim to have read the book and 'float' the pretext that the summary conclusions are your own.  That would be plegiarism, which carries severe repercussions academically.
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The copyright does belong to the photographer, unless that person has assigned rights, and then the copyright belongs to the current rightsholder.\n\nYou may have your own state rights, such as a right of publicity, that could keep others from distributing photos where you are the subject. \n\nIn general, though, just because you're in the picture does not mean you have the copyright.\n\nAnd yes, there is a copyright, even if the photograph or the page does not say so.
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There is a provision of Copyright Laws that allows use of copyrighted material for education purposes.  This is part of Fair Use.\n\n\n"Educational institutions and governmental agencies are also authorized by a separate copyright statute to publicly display and perform others' works in the course of face-to-face teaching activities, and to a lesser degree, in digital distance education. These rights are described in Sections 110 (1) and (2), respectively, of the Copyright Act. More information about the recent expansion of Section 110(2)'s rights for digital distance education may be found in The TEACH Act."
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I think it's legal!  Disc Jockeys play mucic C.D.s at bars and clubs don't they?   The Librarian can copy copyrighted books for you at $.25 per page. You can sell a used paperback book at a yard sale and not be arrested!  That's copyrighted material.\n\nI don't see the difference.  But you may want to get permission first, just to be safe.
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No, it is not illegal.  It is called "fair use".  It would only be illegal if the amount of material reproduced was significant in relation to the whole.  Ten seconds out of two hours would not be a significant enough portion to cause harm to the copyright holder.  Also, if the material was used to illustrate a point within a larger work, such as, copying a paragraph from a book in another book where the first one is used as a reference or to support an argument.  You do not need permission.\n\nYou can look up the entire Fair Use Clause at the US Copyright Office online.
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Hi Shahram,\n\nNot sure who told you that you can use 3 minutes of movie but it's incorrect.  Imagine if the film contained a summary or conclusion - you could effectively show the whole film, or at least the salient parts of it, within the 3 minute clip.\n\nTechnically you need permission before you reproduce anything but there is usually some leeway that would allow a reviewer or critic to reproduce short extracts.  There are other exceptions most notably for educational purposes which allows schools, colleges etc to use otherwise copyrighted material.\n\nFrom what you've said it sounds like a commercial venture that you're engaged in and as such you'll find it harder to get copyright clearance - or at least without having to pay a substantial fee.\n\nRemember that pretty much every movie is going to be copyright protected - the only exceptions are going to be really old movies (in most of the world if the creator died more than 70 years ago, of prior to 1923 in the US).\n\nGood luck with your project and I hope you manage to find a workaround.
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You've actually got two different citations.  When you're citing the original photograph, use the "Painting, Sculpture or Photograph" citation form (use NoodleBib Express http://www.noodletools.com/  You will be asked for information on where that artwork is housed (e.g. a museum or the name or owner of a private collection).  When you're citing the entire exhibit, use the performance citation form.
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My MLA Handbook is old, but I think this still applies:\n\nA research paper does not need a title page. Instead beginning one inch from the top of the first page and flush with the left margin, put your name, your instructor's name, the course number, and date on separate lines. Double space between lines. Double space again and center the title. Double space twice bwetween the title and the first line of the text.
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Even if you change the wording--it is still PLAGIARISM, which is why you can not do it.  You need to read several resources, analyze the material,and then put it in your own words, but you still need to document your sources.\n\nDo not think you can copy something and get away with it, because eventually you will get caught with serious consequences.  It is better to be extra cautious than sorry when it comes to writing papers.\n\nI chair a scholarship committee and students think they can cheat by copying from the Internet.  We compare papers, and it is so obvious.  Changing a few sentences does not hide the fact it was copied. Unfortunately, those students miss out on being awarded scholarships.
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I found these off Google image search, so some of them might be copyright protected:\nhttp://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/370109/2/istockphoto_370109_post_it_note.jpg\nhttp://www.myjanee.com/tuts/postit/postit17.jpg\nhttp://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/534180/2/istockphoto_534180_postit_notes.jpg
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it depends on the particular picture.  if the picture is in the "public domain" then you are free to  duplicate it and use it as you wish.  typically copyrighted work enters the public domain 50 years or so after the creator's death, so most public-domain stuff is old.  images of the mona lisa, for instance, are public domain.\n\nsome copyrighted works lately have been distributed under some special licenses - for instance, the "creative commons license" allows for mostly free use, but i think you have to credit the creator.\n\nmost of the time if you want to use a copyrighted image, you have to contact the creator of the image and ask for their permission to use it.\n\nthere is an exemption to copyright law in the united states called the "fair use" doctrine which applies mostly to educational use.  if your blog is part of an educational project, you may be able to use it legally.\n\nif none of these special cases apply, you are probably in violation of copyright law.  however, odds are that nobody's going to care or even notice.  this kind of thing happens all the time on the internet since digital files can be copied so easily.  however, it's been known to happen - lots of owners of disney fan-sites have received cease & desist letters from disney's lawyers for displaying images of mickey mouse, for instance.  (no kidding)\n\nthe one thing you definitely shouldn't do is link to the image on someone else's site.  this is especially true if your blog is high-traffic, since every visitor to your site downloads the image from some other poor schmuck's web server.  most people pay for internet hosting by the gigabyte, which means you are costing someone money if you do this.  so don't.  it's mean.
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The legal concept called "intellectual property" is at work here.  \n\nThink of it as equivalent to going to a movie.  Because you paid admission to the theatre, is it your right to record the film being shown, and then to do what you want with that material?  Could you then take that material, burn it onto DVDs and sell copies?  No, that would be called piracy, and it is prohibited by federal and international law.\n\nIt's the same thing in a classroom.  If you are my student, you have not paid for the rights to my intellectual property.  My intellectual property includes anything I create (a syllabus, a lecture, a presentation, a book, an article, etc.).  Your tuition dollars do not entitle you to own any of these things.  Your tuition dollars DO provide you with the opportunity to attend classes at a university, and to choose (or not to choose) me as your guide and mentor as you attempt to learn certain things that lie within my field of expertise.\n\nIntellectual property law is important in that it is NOT anyone's right to do what they want with my lectures (tape them and post them online, burn CDs containing them, broadcast them over the radio, etc.).  If a student takes one of my classes, s/he enters into an agreement in which s/he will abide by the contract (syllabus) I have created, and will endeavor to earn a good grade by fulfilling that contract to the best of his/her ability.  If a student wishes to tape my lectures, s/he may ask that I permit this. (This is equivalent to asking to amend our contract - my syllabus.)   If I believe that this student will use my lecture only for purposes of study, I might agree.  Or I might not.\n\nBottom line?  Students do not pay for lectures, as they are not commodities.  They pay for the right to work toward an education, and an education is earned, not bought.