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Originally Posted by kennyc
This.
You need permission to use someone else's work, particularly something like Tables, Graphs, Images.
Unless of course it is in the public domain.
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True. In my earlier post I meant that some information is easier to access in the 1st place than others. For example McDonalds has signs up that read X Million served, but Amazon doesn't reveal how many Kindles they have sold as opposed to how many returns they get. And some information is public record while other information requires the person making the inquiry to submit requests for permission to even view it, much less publish about it. Sometimes it depends on who published the material in the first place too. For example round WWII cartoons starring Private Snafu were made by the armed services. Since they were made by animators working for the government they (like other training films) were considered public domain from the start, while movies made in Hollywood at that time were still owned by the studios that made them. I imagine it can be complex to get permissions to use data in a non fiction book if the company from which it came has changed hands via sale or merger too. I mean in such a case who do you ask permission from? The original company? The company that bought them out? That's why it sometimes takes so long for older movies to come to DVD. The film is sometimes sold to another company who may then decide to resell it to another or they may merge with another company who then has the rights to it, and so on.