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 -------- Original message -------- To: [log in to unmask] 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