Sample Permission Request Letter

 

 

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Dear Ms. Simon:

My name is Dana Westrin, and I'm a corporate trainer specializing in leadership development. Frequently, I give presentations before audiences ranging from 50 to 300 people. In an effort to enhance their experience, I like to include visual overheads. I also like to include resource material in my handout packet. I am writing to request permission to use material from your book, The Effective Leader: A Primer for New Leaders and Managers. The details are as follows:

Book: The Effective Leader: A Primer for New Leaders and Managers

Author: Joanna Simon

Type of Publication: Book

Publication date, copyright year, edition, ISBN #: 2006, 2nd edition, #-#####-###-#.

Rights Needed #1: Use cartoon title, In Your Shadow, Chapter 2, page 26. To be used as overhead.

Rights Needed #2: Use cartoon title, Leaders & Managers, Chapter 3, page 41. To be used as overhead.

Rights Needed #3: Use text in chapter 4, pages 52-54. To be included as resource material in handout.

Please review my request and let me know the terms for licensing your material and the exact form of credit you require. If you are in agreement, please sign and date both copies of this letter and return one to me with any additional information you'd like me to know.

Sincerely,		Joanna Simon
Dana Westrin		Rights Holder (or Permissions Dept. Publisher)

Sample Cease-and-Desist Letter for Copyright/Trademark Infringement

Note: The specific language of a Cease-and-Desist letter depends on a variety of conditions. As a result, the following is a sample letter used in one particular situation: infringement of a copyright. Feel free to modify the text to suit your needs, including adding additional paragraphs. However, because it's a legal document, you should have a lawyer review it before sending it out.

 

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Ms./Mrs./Mr. Address City, State, Zip

DEAR SIR OR MADAM,

I've become aware that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work titled _______________ and it has also come to my attention that you are using my protected trademark titled ______________ in a prohibited manner (the combined works hereinafter known as the "Work"). I have reserved all rights in the Work, and have registered both the copyright and the trademark in question. Since you have and continue to use my material without my consent, and because your use does not ostensibly fall within the Fair Use doctrine, by using my protected work you have infringed both my copyright and my trademark. Enclosed are samples of your unauthorized and illegal use.

The purpose of this letter is to advise you of my rights and ask that you discontinue your use immediately; secondly, to inform you of the consequences of your inaction. Therefore I demand that you immediately STOP using and distributing all infringing copies of the Work, including electronic copies. I also request that you send me any and all unused and undistributed copies, or destroy them immediately. Further, I demand that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. Please reply to this letter within fourteen (14) business days indicating your compliance with my request.

All relevant information in this letter is accurate as of the time it was compiled. In an effort to avoid bringing lawyers into the picture, I request that you please confirm, in writing, that you have complied with my reasonable request. If I do not receive such notice within the stipulated time, you leave me no choice but to resort to a legal remedy.

Thank you,

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