Sample Permission Letters

Copyright Permission Request

To:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________

From:________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________

I am preparing material for an article to be published in Journal of the Forensic Institute I hereby request permission for non-exclusive world rights to use the following material:

Your publication: (title/author(s)/publication date/figure, table or text excerpt/page(s))

This will appear in my publication as text or labelled as:

< insert actual paragraph/table etc here >

Please sign the release for below. Suitable credit will be given for the use of your material. The Online Journal of the Forensic Institute will honour your wishes if you have a preferred statement. If you have such a preference please indicate that below. You prompt consideration of this request would be appreciated.

Yours truly,

I (we) grant the permission requested above.

By:___________________________ Date_____________

 

License Agreements

Licence Agreement

Name of author/copyright holder

Hereby grant to The Forensic Institute a non-exclusive licence to include the material identified below

Article title:____________________________________________________

Corresponding author:____________________________________________

To be published in the Online Journal of the Forensic Institute

And the right to include the material in all media including electronic and microfilm and to use the material in conjunction with computer based electronic information retrieval systems, to grant permissions for photocopying, reproductions and reprints, to translate the material and to publish the translation, and to authorise document delivery and abstracting services.

The contributor warrants that the article and all figures, illustrations, tabular material and other supplementary material is be original.

The contributor warrants that the article contains no libellous or unlawful statements, contains no instructions that may cause harm or injury and shall not infringe upon or violate any copyright, trademark, or other right or the privacy of others.

I retain all other rights.
Please sign the document in black ink

Signed:_______________________________________

Name Printed:__________________________________

Title and company (if employer representative):______________________________

Date:__________________

Please return the completed and signed original of this form by mail or fax, or a scanned copy of the signed original by e-mail retaining a copy for your files, to:

The Forensic Institute, Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6HJ.

This will appear in my publication as text or labelled as:

< insert actual paragraph/table etc here >

Please sign the release form below. Suitable credit will be given for the use of your material. The Online Journal of the Forensic Institute will honour your wishes if you have a preferred statement. If you have such a preference please indicate that below. You prompt consideration of this request would be appreciated.

Yours truly,

I (we) grant the permission requested above.

By:___________________________ Date_____________

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Licence Agreement

Name of author/copyright holder

Hereby grant to The Forensic Institute a non-exclusive licence to include the material identified below

Article title:____________________________________________________

Corresponding author:____________________________________________

To be published in the Online Journal of the Forensic Institute

And the right to include the material in all media including electronic and microfilm and to use the material in conjunction with computer based electronic information retrieval systems, to grant permissions for photocopying, reproductions and reprints, to translate the material and to publish the translation, and to authorise document delivery and abstracting services.

The contributor warrants that the article and all figures, illustrations, tabular material and other supplementary material is be original.

The contributor warrants that the article contains no libellous or unlawful statements, contains no instructions that may cause harm or injury and shall not infringe upon or violate any copyright, trademark, or other right or the privacy of others.

I retain all other rights.

Please sign the document in black ink

Signed:_______________________________________

Name Printed:__________________________________

Title and company (if employer representative):______________________________

Date:__________________

Please return the completed and signed original of this form by mail or fax, or a scanned copy of the signed original by e-mail retaining a copy for your files, to:

The Forensic Institute, Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6H