Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

Re: Copyright infringement

Some authors do a preliminary copyright clearance for their work before submitting a manuscript to a commercial publisher (vanity press does not do this); others rely on their publisher for this. If there are serious issues with rights, though, many publishers may not want to take on such a work.

From your message I cannot tell exactly what material was reproduced to require you to apply for copyright permissions from the right holders. Listing names and addresses of businesses that are publicly known (assuming no copying of someone else's list or directory takes place) is unlikely to require copyright permissions. However, the whole manuscript needs to be reviewed by a copyright attorney to make such a determination.

The above reply is in the nature of general information, is not legal advice and should not be relied upon as such.