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Reprints are customized, reformatted versions -- in either or print or electronic form -- of articles that have appeared online at InfoWorld.com. They are a great way to market your product, service or company alongside the industry-respected brand of InfoWorld.
Reprints serve to promote the connection between your company and InfoWorld. For companies interested in direct marketing, hard-copy reprints are the only available link to the article in its original format online.
Reprint products are powerful as direct marketing tools, either through mail or online promotions. They offer valuable third-party endorsements of your company, products or services. Reprints are replications of the original coverage, with space for your company logo and contact information to be added.
Hard copy reprints are articles that have been reformatted and reprinted onto 8 1/2- by 11-inch glossy paper in two to four colors. A single reprint can number one to eight pages in length. Electronic reprints are articles that have been reformatted as either a pdf, or a flash based digital reprint.
The most commonly used reprint products are hard-copy articles, but that’s not the only way to promote your feature. Electronic usage covers a selection of digital products, perfect for marketing online and via email. Also available are plaques, posters, postcards, and banners for promoting your coverage around the office or at a trade show.
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From time to time, readers and vendors alike want to use excerpts from InfoWorld articles in their own material.
Commercial usage: If the usage is for marketing or sales activities, such as where an endorsement is stated or implied, permission for such usage is required. Please email the quote(s) you'd like to use along with the issue date, page number, or URL on which the quote appeared and a brief description of how you plan to use the quote to the Copyright Clearance Center. See below on how to contact the Copyright Clearance Center.
"Fair use" usage: If the intended usage is for discussion, critique, education, and other such "fair use" activities -- both public and internal, such as reports, papers, magazines, newspapers, books, and on the Internet/websites -- a brief excerpt of a few sentences is permitted with credit to InfoWorld and, in media that support hyperlinks, a link to the original content. For more extensive use in magazines, newspapers, books, and on the Internet/websites, please contact copyright@infoworld.com directly. Include the information below in your request.
If you plan to incorporate an InfoWorld logo with your excerpt , please include it in your request to the Copyright Clearance Center. These are approved on a case-by-case basis.
Photocopying an InfoWorld article requires prior permission. Contact the Copyright Clearance Center to get permission and pricing to photocopy an InfoWorld article from the print editions pubklished until April 2007.
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