How Much Should a Permission Cost?
The process of identifying and locating the copyright owner will result in an expenditure of time and money. These expenses can be added to the actual fee for the consent when calculating the actual cost of the consent. The actual consent fee will depend on a number of variables, such as the portion of the copyrighted work to be reproduced, the value of the copyrighted work and the nature of the proposed work, i.e., non-profit (educational) or for profit (commercial). Consequently, it is difficult to establish a firm guideline as to what fees are likely to be encountered. Moreover, as new technologies continue to develop for the production and dissemination of educational projects, consent fees are likely to continue to evolve in answer to these changes.
