Rights and Permissions
If any texts or images gathered from materials in the Robbins Collection are under copyright, permission to publish them should be sought from the owners of the rights, typically the creator or the heirs to his or her estate. It is not necessary to seek the Robbins Collection's permission to publish texts or images (unless the Robbins or the University of California is identified as the copyright holder), but the Robbins Collection should be cited as the source.
Besides the U.S. Copyright Office, the WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is another resource for tracing copyright holders. This database (a joint project of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reading Library, Reading, England) contains primarily the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. It is the patron's responsibility to determine copyright and to seek the requisite permissions.
Contact Robbins Collection Publications for permissions related to our publications.
Credit Lines
When citing the Robbins Collection as a source, the citation should read as follows:
The Robbins Collection, University of California School of Law, Boalt Hall.
