Questions & Answers- Copyright Column

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ANSWER: Technically, charts and tables are separate graphic works. How to treat them depends on the following. If the author of the article or book authored the chart and they have been neither separately published nor published elsewhere, then the chart is a small part of that article or book. Reproducing it would count as copying a small portion of the work. By contrast, if the chart is authored by someone else and is used in that book or article with permission, then it must be treated as a separate work and permission would be required from the original producer of the chart.