Copyright: Sample Forms

Duke University scholarly communications blog: The following sample request for permission letters, release forms and licenses are intended as models. They are not form letters, since each such document should take account of specific situations and circumstances:

[date: 10 February 2009]

[address of permissions holder: University of Chicago Press

Permissions Department,

1427 East 60th Street

Chicago, IL 60637]

Dear Permissions Manager,  

My name is [your name] and I'm writing to you from [college/class]. We are located at [college address] and I can be reached at [phone] or [email].

We would like to include [author's name or resource title] our on-line digital repository, Bethel University Digital Library http://content.clic.edu/bethel.html . The repository is non-commercial and is meant to collect resources related to the history of [your topic]. Students, faculty and researchers primarily use the collection and it is not password protected.

Would you allow for the archiving of [detailed citation of work requested - example: "The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened German Science.” In Benjamin Schmidt and Pamela Smith, eds., Knowledge and its Making in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 273-86.]

Sincerely,

[your name]