It is your responsibility as author to secure permissions for copyrighted work that appears in your article. While short excerpts from copyrighted material may usually be quoted without permission, excerpts from poetry and song lyrics almost always require written permission. Likewise, any student work, text or graphic, requires a signed release from the student and, if the student is under eighteen, the signature of a parent. To protect the student’s identity, you must use a pseudonym unless you have written permission from the student and a parent or legal guardian to use the real name.
Photographs and artwork are held to the same strictures mentioned above with regard to permissions. Authors must obtain written permission from the photographer and the subjects in the photograph. If the subjects are students under eighteen, you must also obtain signed permission from a parent or legal guardian.
The English Journal office will provide forms for permissions and releases or you can download them here. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open any of these files. As you know, students can be difficult to find once they leave your classroom, so if you want to use student work in your article we encourage you to get these forms signed early.
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