Use Guidelines
Commercial Use
digitalculturebooks content is available to view for free online and for purchase in print. digitalculturebooks products are typically produced under a Creative Commons (CC) Licence that allows for specific, noncommercial use.
Coursepack Requests
Coursepack permission for most digitalculturebooks titles titles can be requested from the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Academic Permissions Services.
You may also make your coursepack request directly to the University of Michigan Press using their Electronic Coursepack Form.
Please note that no more than 15% of an in-print paperback or 30% of an in-print hardcover may be photocopied by law.
Coursepack permissions are granted on a per-semester basis.
Reprint Requests
To request permission to reprint
If you edit University of Michigan Press material, a photocopy of the edited material must be submitted with your request.
Reprint permission is granted on a non-exclusive, one-time-only use basis.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that created a set of simple, easy-to-understand copyright licenses. These licenses carve out a spectrum of options between the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright and the rights-free public domain. Copyright comes with a number of rights, and you as a creator may not want or need all of them. Before Creative Commons, there was no easy way for creators to share their rights, even if they wanted to. The "Some Rights Reserved" model helps copyright holders to share their work easily without giving up all their rights, and it allows everyone to find work that is free to use without permission.
By marking your copyrighted content as available for reuse, you can offer the academic community and the public a valuable contribution to a growing set of scholarly resources that are free from traditional permissions barriers.
The Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license allows anyone to use your work—to copy, distribute, display, or perform it—as long as the user gives proper attribution to you, does not make any changes to the work, and as long as the use is non-commercial.
Adding a license to online works is as simple as cutting and pasting a snippet of code into the content of the webpage where the work appears. To get the code, fill out Creative Commons's license form. While you are not required to fill in the additional information section, it is very helpful for people who want to use your work in the future, especially people who seek to use the work in ways not permitted by the license.
