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This short PDF guide from ProQuest contains excerpts from Kenneth Crews's "Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis." It also includes a sample permission letter.
This PDF guide was prepared by Kenneth Crews with the support of ProQuest. It is "principally intended to help readers learn and understand the copyright issues relevant to doctoral dissertations."