permissions for Mosby publications

["Aken, Stephanie" <saken@email.uky.edu>]

Greetings, all -

We have a faculty member in our College of Dentistry who wishes 
to use 5 illustrations from a 1996 clinical dentistry book 
published by Mosby and owned by our library.  He attempted to 
request permission from Elsevier to use these illustrations in an 
article he is submitting for publication, but he was told that 
Elsevier could not identify the book and did not own the rights 
to the Mosby book, and he was actually instructed to contact the 
American Medical Association (!).  Has anyone else experienced 
this situation?  A later spiral-bound edition of the book was 
published in 2000, but it is out of print and has only limited 
availability, so that avenue appears to be a dead end. The LWW 
1984 reprint of the 1976 edition is also out of print, and I 
don't know that these same exact illustrations were in that 
version; regardless, it was also published by Mosby. We feel that 
we have made an honest attempt to obtain permission and that Fair 
Use should kick in, but the faculty member, understandably, would 
appreciate a more definitive response. The book in question (our 
edition is loose-leaf) is:

Clark's clinical dentistry /

James W Clark;  Jefferson F Hardin

1996 Rev. ed. 1996. English  Book 5 v.

(loose-leaf) : ill. (some col.), forms ; 27 cm. + index. St. Louis :

Mosby, ; ISBN: 0815122241 9780815122241

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Best regards,

Stephanie Nicely Aken
Electronic Resources Coordinator
University of Kentucky Libraries
William T. Young Library
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506-0456
saken@email.uky.edu