Permission acknowledgment for copyright material

Where a rights holder has granted you permission to use their material within your publication, you will need to acknowledge this in two places:

1. within the text
2. as a general notice in the front matter.

Within the text

For copyright material (such as an image, material in a table or embedded media), add a permission notice in brackets immediately after the caption.

For written material such as an extensive quote, add a permission notice in brackets after the quoted material and footnote number.

Consult with the RMIT Open Publishing Team for precise wording as it will depend on the terms of use.

Example

Lengthy quote used with permission

‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus.’^[1] (Quoted with permission) 

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A photograph used with permission

In the front matter

Add a disclaimer statement to the front matter covering all copyright sources used with permission. This will also go into the online record for the resource.

Consult with the RMIT Open Publishing Team for precise wording as it will depend on the copyright owners’ terms of use.

Using trade marks with permission

Trade marks are a different category of intellectual property to copyright.  They also require permission for reuse from the rights holder.

When using a trade mark with permission, add a permission statement according to the trade mark owners’ specifications.  This may be either:

• immediately after the image, in parentheses

or

• a general statement in the front matter if multiple trade marks are used.

Consult with the RMIT Open Publishing Team for precise wording as it will depend on the trade mark owners’ terms of use.

Examples

Permission notice for a trade mark used with permission

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A trade mark permission notice for the front matter and online record

All logos represented in this publication are protected under trade mark legislation and are used with the permission of the corresponding organisation.

Embedded videos without a Creative Commons licence

You can embed a video in your resource without permission, even if it does not have a Creative Commons licence or is not in the public domain. This is because when you embed a video, it is still being hosted on the original site (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo), so the instance which appears in your Pressbook is not a copy as such.

However, you must still determine that the original video does not breach copyright. For example it must be uploaded to the hosting site by the creator, and must not contain third party material which the creator does not have permission to reuse. Contact the RMIT Open Publishing Team for assistance if you are unsure.

An embedded video still requires an acknowledgement, regardless of whether it has a Creative Commons licence or not. Make a simple statement with the hyperlinked video title and the creator’s name. See Chapter 11: Captions for Figures, Tables and Media.