From: "Garewal,Kevin R" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 11:26:47 +0000

Good morning,

At my prior university, we had IDC. From my recollection, we got a
concession or two on the agreement, but no in regards to permission to
publish the data. Ian is spot on in his description of what we had to
do each time.

That said, I never had an instance where I found them unreasonable.
If anything,  they usually made helpful suggestions.

Thanks,
KG


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Subject: Re: License Question: IDC Research, Analyze the Future
From: Ian Robson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 13:01:46 +0000

Hi Mark,

I used to be a corporate librarian and had dealings with IDC.
Typically, these kinds of one-by-one permissions are based on IDC
vetting how their data are used in marketing and PR communications. In
the corporate context, we would contact IDC for each individual
instance where we wanted to use their data externally [permissions
were not required for use within the company]. Sometimes a brief
description was enough, but often they would want to see how we
proposed to use the data in the finished product – e.g. the slides for
a conference presentation, marketing materials, the quote to be used
in a press release, etc. Unless they have made a separate provision
for academic use in the license, it would seem that you would need to
follow the same permissions seeking model.

I have not dealt with this in the academic context. Do you know if IDC
has a separate, academic, license available? This would be of interest
to me, too, as Waterloo focuses more on supporting entrepreneurship.
It is inevitable that we will come across similar issues.

Best,

Ian

Ian Robson
Head, Collection Development
Dana Porter Library
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1



From: Mark Hemhauser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 15:25:43 -0700

IDC: Analyze the Future is a business database primarily intended for
corporate clients.  The license agreement prohibits publication of
information from their reports without prior one-by-one permission
requests.  They have a permissions office that handles such “external”
publication requests.  Anyone subscribing?  How do you honor the
agreement?  There’s no mention of copyright law.  The information is
entirely proprietary.

Mark

Mark Hemhauser
Head of Acquisitions, The Library
250 Moffitt Library, MC 6000
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000