I am working on a new war boardgame that I hope will have illustrations on the unit counters (instead of sillouhettes). I have found a great source for illustrations in a book on WWII Vehicles.
But, I need to know how one goes about getting permisison to use copyrighted illustrations. Has anyone done this in the past?
Thanks
myself but the first step could be contacting the publisher of the book. They might not bend over backwards to help you, but if it's a large publisher they have deparments dedicated to such things as licensing and rights (but I'm not sure if Simon & Schuster's legal department will give you much attention).
At a smaller publisher they should at least be able to tell you if they own the rights to the illustrations, or the artist does, and they might be nice enough to give you contact info for the artist, or more likely, at least give you their address with an attention to name in which they'll forward the letter along.
I've only worked at small book publishers in the past, so I'm not sure if there is a better way (and this way can be time consuming and maybe lead to a quick dead end if no one wants to bother to help you out).
Best of luck.