Permissions
Dr. Patrick Briney’s publications (including eBooks, books, workbooks, website articles, etc.) are all copyrighted:
© 2020-2024 Patrick Briney. All Rights Reserved.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law4
For more information or written permission, please write:
Permissions Coordinator, Life Changing Scriptures
2006 Mission Blvd.
Fayetteville, AR 72703
Guidelines
If you are quoting or otherwise using literary, pictorial, or graphic works (published or unpublished), you may have to obtain permission to do so, for reasons of copyright, ownership, and courtesy. The law of copyright is very specific on what constitutes fair use of another person’s intellectual property, and copyright holders are becoming increasing assertive about their exclusive rights.
Libraries, archives, and owners of unpublished material also usually require authors to obtain permission to reproduce materials. And asking permission to reproduce a work is in any case a courtesy to its creator. It is very important that you obtain all necessary permissions before reprinting something.
The Law on Copyright
Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code reads as follows:
§ 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the fair use of copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified in that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include–
(1) the purpose and the character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Copyright Term Extension
Note also that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Title 1 of Pub. L. No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2817, 2830, extends protection of a work to the life of the work’s creator plus seventy years. For the most up-to-date information on copyright law, please look at <www.loc.gov/copyright/>.
Quotation size
Quoting a short section of someone else’s work in order to comment on or critique it is generally considered fair use, as is parody. It is suggested you keep quotations to 100 words or less. You would need permission to quote whole chapters and poems and even parts of song lyrics, illustrations, photographs, and artworks.
Quotes in titles, etc.
You are not covered by the fair use clause if you’re using a quote as a title, epigraph, or illustration or are using a pictorial or graphic element as a motif. This is likely to be of special concern if you are publishing a book of poems or fiction.
Obtaining Permission
Please send your Permissions Request Letter to apply for permission. Your letter should include the following information with the details of your request.
- Your name / Publisher’s name
- Title of Book / Article
- Date published
- The approximate length of pages for this title
- The approximate list price for hardcover and for paperback
- Text to be quoted
- Specific use of quote requiring permission
Permission To Use Copyrighted Materials
If you would like to use materials from Dr. Patrick Briney’s eBooks, books, website material, and other copyrighted materials, please send us a letter using the sample below.
- Your name / Publisher’s name
- Title of Book / article
- Date published.
- The approximate length of pages for this title
- The approximate list price will be $____.00 for hardcover and $___.00 for paperback.
Specific wording or placement is required for a credit line. This is very important, particularly for illustration captions.
You may have to pay a permission fee.
If you are in doubt about whether permission is required for something you want to use, please ask us.
Sample Permissions Letter
To Whom It May Concern:
Publisher’s name is planning to publish my book entitled Title of Book, in [Month, year]. The approximate length of this title will be # of pages pages, and the approximate list price will be $____.00 for hardcover and $___.00 for paperback.
I would like permission to reprint [cited text or image to be reproduced] by [author] from [title or source] in my book.
I ask that this permission include nonexclusive publication and selling rights throughout the world in all languages and in all editions, hardcover, paperback, and electronic, including reprints by ___________________ is or by other publishers licensed by the ___________________ is, and in any print and online advertising materials promoting this book.
I ask you to consider that distribution of our title outside North America and Europe will be minimal.
Since ___________________ occasionally receives requests for images to accompany a review of the book, I ask permission to reproduce the image(s) in book reviews or to accompany televised interviews. Any images used in reviews or to accompany author interviews will be properly credited.
Since ____________________ may receive requests from nonprofit organizations to make special editions such as Braille editions, large-type editions, subscriber disk recordings, and so on, for use by blind or partially sighted students, will you please extend your permission to allow ________________________ to permit these nonprofit organizations to make special editions of our title without further permission from you? Full credit will be given to the source.
If you wish to specify the exact wording of the credit, please do so in your response.
If you are willing to grant permission, please sign the release form provided below and return it to me at [address]. Please feel free to contact me directly at [contact info] if you have any questions or concerns. Your prompt consideration of this request will be greatly appreciated.
