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Details of what you need to do if you are including 3rd party copyright material in your dissertation or if you wish to include work you yourself have published in your dissertation.
As an electronic version of your dissertation is going to be made available online you will need to seek permission if you want to include any 3rd party copyright material, e.g. extracts from publications such as books or journals, or illustrations such as images, maps, photographs, tables etc.
If the 3rd party copyright material within your dissertation consists of a short quotation from a published work and you have acknowledged and referenced it adequately it will probably not be necessary to seek permission from the copyright holder. However, copyright law does not define what is meant by a short extract. If in doubt, it is best to seek permission. Many publishers give details on their web site of how to seek permission and who to contact. If the publisher does not hold the rights to the work they should forward your enquiry to whoever does.
Once you have established who to contact you can use this permission seeking template to form the basis of a letter or e-mail to the rights holder asking permission to include the material in the electronic version of your dissertation.
Please note that while students are being asked to make best efforts to seek permission to include 3rd party copyright material, no student will be required to make any payments to copyright holders for material they wish to include in their dissertation.
If this is the case you should save an additional copy of your dissertation, remove the relevant material and insert a place holder at this point in the document, e.g. Figure (Text/Chart/Diagram/image etc.) has been removed due to Copyright restrictions.
