Most text, figures, artwork, graphs, and photographs originally created or published by someone else need permission. This includes any work done on your publication by anyone not employed by UW-Extension Cooperative Extension, such as a freelancer. You should assume that work from other state government publications–including those of other Cooperative Extension Services–requires permission.

For tables, permission is required to publish someone else's published or unpublished data. A table of data directly from a single source and not altered requires permission.

It is important to distinguish permission from citing the source. Authors must cite the source for everything–for example, graphics, quotations, tables, and figures–that they do not create. Failure to cite a source is considered plagiarism. Even tables or figures that do not need a permission need a source if they are not the author's own work.

We cannot publish a figure, table, artwork, or portion of any work that needs a permission until we have on file a copy of that permission. Your editor can supply a sample permissions request letter.