Editing Appendix/Ramblings/CopyrightIssues (section)

===Permission to Reprint Digitally?===

In the context of copyright rules, I wondered whether or not I was allowed to digitally insert the three images (the Figure and two equations) into my online chapter without explicitly obtaining permission from the author and/or the journal.  I went to what seemed to be the [https://academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/rights_and_new_business_development relevant page on the MNRAS website] for guidance, and read the following set of instructions:

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  <td align="right" width="15%">Publisher:</td>
  <td align="left">Oxford University Press ([https://academic.oup.com/mnras/ Oxford Academic])</td>
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  <td align="right">Copyright:</td>
  <td align="left">[https://ras.ac.uk Royal Astronomical Society]</td>
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  <td align="right">[https://academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/rights_and_new_business_development Rights &amp; Permissions]:</td>
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Excerpts from online instructions (verbatim text printed in dark green):

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'''Requests to Reuse Figures'''

You are not required to obtain permission to reuse figures (including tables) for academic, educational or non-commercial research for the following material provided full acknowledgment is given to the original source including Figure Number, Title of the Article, Author, Journal Title and Volume or Issue.

Post 1998: a maximum of two figures (including tables) from a journal article or five figures per journal issue (unless a separate copyright holder is identified in such figure, in which event permission should be sought from that holder).

Pre 1998: a maximum of five figures (including tables) per journal article.

'''Other Permission Requests'''

For all other permission requests please email Journals Permissions clearly stating the material you wish to reuse and the way in which you wish to reuse it.
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The first sentence under "Requests to Reuse Figures" seems to indicate that I do ''not'' have to explicitly seek permission from the author or the journal, given that a full acknowledgment accompanies each inserted digital image in my online chapter.  However, the second ("Post 1998") sentence states that I am limited to the reuse of, at most, two figures/tables.  It is unclear from this set of guidelines/rules how digital images of equations should be handled.  It seems to me that they should count against the "figures/tables" limit because digitally reprinting an equation requires the same cut & paste strokes as are required to digitally reprint a figure. 

In order to cover all bases, I decided to directly contact the author, Omer Blaes, and ask for his permission to reuse the three digital images that I had extracted from his 1985 paper.