Clearing the way

Amy Ellisexamines the risks of slow copyright clearances and explains how to avoid them

Amy Ellis- PLS

Reusingcontent from other publishers is par for the course in the publishing industry. Novelists may want to quote from apoem say and scholars need to quote directly from their sources within newpublications. These small licence deals, often for only a few hundred words orone or two images, should take a relatively small amount of time to clear butunfortunately permissions clearance is an often-neglected part of thepublishing process.