If I want to use an image from a particular journal in my journal paper what should I do? Do I need to seek permission from the author or the publisher? Is there any legal procedure to follow?
The short answer is yes. More precisely, you will have to obtain a written permission from the copyright holder, which in general is the journal in which the relevant paper has been published. If you search the official website of the relevant journal, they provide the information regarding the way to obtain written permission for reproducing the material they have published. This written permission is to be included in the material you submit to the journal where you intend to publish your manuscript -- they need to be assured that the material they may publish in the future does not infringe copyrights held by others.
If it is a graphic, you may be able to reproduce the graphic yourself and note that yours is BASED on the model employed by such and such an author.
You need to obtain copyright permission. Every online article will have a tag such as Get rights and content or Reprints and Permission or something similar to that. Clicking on the link will take you Rightslink website (Copyright Clearance Center) to obtain permission for reuse. It will not take more than 60 seconds to obtain copyright permission. However, if the the publishers are not in common agreement, it will add a cost which you have to pay. Please refer the attachments.
Surely one must get the copyrights from the journal where paper or image was published before you could reproduce it.
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