1. Submit your request via the Permissions Request Form 
2. Your request is evaluated and processed; we send you a fee quote for your review
3. You accept your fee quote and we clear copyright with publisher
4. If copyright is clear, we send you a license agreement for signature
5. You sign the license agreement and submit payment
6. We send you confirmation, which completes the process 

We handle permissions licensing on behalf of many newspaper and magazine publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Fortune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many more publications. Please use our search bar at the bottom of this page to search for the publication you are requesting from. If the specific publication does not show up, please submit your request through our Permissions Form and the Permissions Coordinator will let you know whether we can handle the publication you are requesting from.  

The first person you will hear from is the Permissions Coordinator, who will acknowledge your request and may reach out to you for more information if there are details missing. After the Permissions Coordinator confirms that your request is ready for quoting, they will send your request to a Content Permissions Specialist, who will be the person sending you the fee quote and license agreement.

Your PARS Representative will be able to advise you on the best package of uses for your company needs. 

The Permissions Coordinator will strive to acknowledge your request and (if applicable) reach out to you for more information within 1-2 business days after we receive your request. We respond to and quote requests in the order in which they are received, so the timing of the whole permissions process will vary on a case-by-case basis. Many factors can affect the turnaround time of your order; these factors include copyright clearance and use approval as well as materials retrieval (if requested). All licenses require a signed non-cancelable order form and may require pre-payment. “Rush Service” may be available for a premium. To get the request process started, please submit your request here.

In order to clear the copyright of the content and approve your requested use, our Publishers do require the full content and use details of your project that our request form asks you for. We can certainly give you a generic, non-binding fee quote if you provide us with estimates, but we will require more accurate/final content and use details before we send you the binding license agreement for signature, and if those details are different from the estimates you initially provide, then the fee is subject to change.

Yes, all permission licensing with PARS is subject to fees. We quote each permission request individually, based on the content and context of a request. If you are interested in receiving a fee quote for permission, please provide your full content and use details through our Permissions Request Form. All fees are quoted in US Dollars ($).

After we receive your fee acceptance, our publisher contacts will research/clear the copyright of the content and circulate your use for approval internally. We do not have direct access to our publishers’ archives and each publisher has different editorial review policies, so the timing of the clearance process varies. If the publisher is able to clear the content and approve your use, your Content Permission Specialist will send you the license agreement for signature through DocuSign (a secure electronic signature tool). If the content is not clear and/or your use is not approved, we will alert you right away.