Requesting Permission
Guidelines and Alternate Phrases
Pave the way for the request by telling who you are and how you plan to use the quoted material.
Request permission for the specific material to be used. If you are telling an anecdote, supply a copy of how you will word the story and in what context. If you are using printed material, be specific about page, lines, figures, photos, and so forth.
Give the exact use of the material: One-time limited use? In all foreign translations? On video? On audio? In all associated product brochures and manuals?
Suggest a permission line to be used to show copyright, or ask the granter of the rights to do so.
Reprinted by courtesy of Holdern Corporation.
Courtesy of Tom Mitchell Group, Inc.
Reprinted by permission from Banking in America, by Harold Smith, Harper and Row Publishers, copyright 19—.
Make it easy for the reader to respond: include copies of anything to be reprinted, the context of the reprint, and permission forms or approval-signature space on your letter of request.
Thank the reader.
I appreciate your cooperation.
Thank you for your courtesy in allowing this use of your material.
Thank you for granting permission for this limited use.
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