IEEE COPYRIGHT FORM
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TITLE OF WORK (hereinafter, "the work"):
AUTHOR(S):
PUBLICATION TITLE/DATE:
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PART A - COPYRIGHT TRANSFER FORM
(U.S. Government employees whose work is not subject to U.S. copyright
should so certify by signing Part B overleaf. Authors of works subject
to Crown Copyright should sign Part C overleaf.)
The undersigned hereby assigns all copyright rights in and to the above
work to The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (the
"IEEE"). The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the work is
original and that he/she is the author of the work, except possibly for
material such as text passages, figures, and data that clearly identify
the original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners
where required. The undersigned represents that he/she has the power and
authority to make and execute this assignment.
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noted in items 1 and 4 below, and grants to the above authors and
employers for whom the work may have been performed a royalty-free
license to use the material as noted in items 2 and 3. Item 5 stipulates
that authors and employers must seek permission to republish in cases
not covered by Items 2, 3, and 4.
1. Employers (or authors) retain all proprietary rights in any process,
procedure, or article of manufacture described in the work.
2. Authors/employers may reproduce or authorize others to reproduce the
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derivative works for the author's personal use or for company use
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permission to reproduce all or portions of the above work, and to
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attached, but IEEE's Copyright Form MUST BE SIGNED. See "U.S. Government
Employees/U.S. Government Contract Work" overleaf.)
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authors/employers must request permission from the IEEE Copyrights
Office to reproduce or authorize the reproduction of the work or
material extracted verbatim from the work, including figures and tables.
Please see notes on "IEEE Obligations" as copyright holder.
In the event the above work is not accepted and published by the IEEE or
is withdrawn by the author(s) before acceptance by the IEEE, this
agreement becomes null and void.
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AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE TITLE
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EMPLOYER FOR WHOM WORK WAS PERFORMED (if applicable) DATE
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AUTHOR'S DAYTIME PHONE FAX EMAIL
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case of multiple authorship where one or more authors are Government
employees but at least one author is not, that non-Government author
should sign Part A of this Form.
PART B -- U.S. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE CERTIFICATION
Authors who are U.S. Government employees are not required to sign Part
A of the IEEE Copyright Form, but any coauthors outside the U.S.
Government are required to sign Part A (see JOINT AUTHORSHIP overleaf).
Authors whose work was performed under a U.S. Government contract or
grant, but who are not Government employees, are required to sign Part A
of this form (see item 4 under Part A). Signing Part B will certify that
ALL authors of the above work are employees of the U.S. Government and
performed this work as part of their official duties and that the work
is therefore not subject to U.S. copyright protection.
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AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE TITLE
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NAME OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION DATE
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PART C - CROWN COPYRIGHT
Authors who are employees of the British Government (or a -British
Commonwealth Government) and whose works are subject to Crown Copyright,
may sign Part C below. IEEE recognizes and will honor Crown Copyright as
it does U.S. Copyright. It is understood that, in asserting Crown
Copyright, IEEE in no way diminishes its rights as publisher. Signing
Part C will certify that ALL authors of the above work are subject to
Crown Copyright. (Appropriate documentation and instructions regarding
wording of Crown Copyright notice may be attached.)
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AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE TITLE
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NAME OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION DATE
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Notes and Information for Authors and Their Employers
IEEE POLICY:
In connection with its publishing activities, it is the formal policy of
the IEEE to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its
technical publications, and to the individual contributions contained
therein, in order to protect the interests of the IEEE, its authors and
their employers, and, at the same time, to facilitate the appropriate
re-use of this material by others. The IEEE distributes its technical
publications throughout the world and does so by various means such as
hard copy, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic media. It also
abstracts and may translate its publications, and articles contained
therein, for inclusion in various compendiums and similar publications,
etc. When an article is submitted for publication to the IEEE, the IEEE
understands that its acceptance of the article implies that IEEE has the
rights to do all of the things it normally does with such an article.
IEEE Policy 6.17 - Clearance of Papers - applies to all material
submitted to IEEE: "The IEEE must of necessity assume that material
presented at its meetings or submitted to its publications is properly
available for general dissemination to the audiences these activities
are organized to serve. It is the responsibility of the authors, not the
IEEE, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the
prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it."
Furthermore, the IEEE must assume that, if an author uses within his/her
article previously published and/or copyrighted material that permission
has been obtained for such use and that any required credit lines,
copyright notices, etc. are duly noted.
IEEE OBLIGATIONS:
In exercising its rights under copyright, the IEEE will make all
reasonable efforts to act in the interests of the authors and employers
as well as in its own interest. In handling third party
reprint/republication requests for an IEEE work, IEEE requires that: 1)
the consent of the first-named author be sought as a condition in
granting republication (of a full paper) to others; and 2) the consent
of the employer be obtained as a condition in granting permission to
others to re-use all or portions of a paper for promotion or marketing
purposes.
AUTHOR/COMPANY RIGHTS:
If you are employed and you prepared your paper as part of your job, the
rights to your work rest initially with your employer. In that case,
when you sign the copyright transfer form, we assume you are authorized
to do so by your employer and that your employer has consented to all
the terms and conditions of this form. If not, it should be signed by
someone so authorized. (See also Policy 6.17 above.)
SPECIAL NOTE TO EMPLOYERS: Just as the IEEE requires a signed copyright
transfer form (for copyrightable material) in order to do "business as
usual," it is the intent of the transfer portion of the form to return
rights to the author and employer so that they, too, may do "business as
usual."
Please note that, although authors are permitted to reuse all or
portions of their IEEE-copyrighted material in other works, this does
not include granting third party requests for reprinting, republishing
or other types of re-use. ALL THIRD-PARTY REQUESTS MUST BE HANDLED BY
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