a fee paid by anyone who wants to reprint part of your book for various uses. Some of these uses are: excerpts of your book appearing in an anthology; teachers reproducing all or part of your story for class use (often the publisher will allow teachers to use material for free); another writer using more than 50 words from your book in a published article. The publisher handles permissions for the author, and splits the proceeds, usually 50/50.

Describes the acquisition and fee paid in order to use all or part of existing, copyrighted material. Permissions are typically sought, for instance, when a publisher wants to excerpt part of a book to use in an anthology. Authors who wish to incorporate a portion of someone else's work in their own creation are obligated to secure permissions. Contracts often require such authors to obtain and pay for permissions, though the responsibility can often be negotiated.

Authorization or copyright clearance provided by a publisher, author or photographer for reuse of any copyrighted material, whether a text article, photograph or illustration etc.

Agreements from copyright holders granting the right to someone else to reproduce their work. Authors who want to excerpt someone else's work in their own book may be obligated under copyright law to secure permissions.

The right to quote or reprint published material, obtained by the author from the copyright holder.

If you include material in your book, which has been previously published elsewhere, you will need to seek permission from the original copyright holder to reuse that material. There is often a cost attached to the use of such material, this is a permission fee.

a fee paid by anyone who wants to reprint part of your book for various uses such as: another writer using more than 50 words from your book in a published article, teachers reproducing all or part of your story for class use (often the publisher will allow teachers to use the material for free). The publisher handles permissions for the author and usually splits the proceeds 50/50.

the granting of rights by one publisher to another to quote extracts from a previously published title; under normal circumstances a permission fee is charged.