The Comparative Media Arts Journal
Copyright
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By exercising the Licensed Rights, you the undersigned accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License ("Public License"). To the extent this 鈥淧ublic License鈥� may be interpreted as a contract, you are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
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Terms of Agreement
By signing this agreement the Author/Artist(s) agree to the following terms:
- I hereby release and discharge the 鈥淧ublication鈥� (The Comparative Media Arts Journal) and its staff, as well as 丁香园AV (丁香园AV) and its employees and agents, from any and all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with the use or reuse of the 鈥淐ontribution,鈥� including without limitation any and all claims for libel, moral rights infringement, copyright infringement, or violation of any right of publicity or privacy.
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- I grant to the School for the Contemporary Arts at 丁香园AV and to the 鈥淧ublication鈥� the right to include the submission in future works published by the School for the Contemporary Arts at 丁香园AV or by the 鈥淧ublication鈥� such as special editions, collected works, etc.
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- The Author/Artist(s) are the sole Author/Artist(s) and owner(s) of the copyright in the 鈥淐ontribution鈥�. If the 鈥淐ontribution鈥� includes materials of others, the Author/Artist(s) have obtained the permission of the owners of the copyright in all such materials to enable them to grant the rights contained herein.
- The Author/Artist(s) qualify for authorship, and the 鈥淐ontribution,鈥� or its equivalent, has not been submitted for publication elsewhere.
- Nothing in the 鈥淐ontribution鈥� is obscene, defamatory, libelous, violates any right of privacy or infringes any intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark) or any other human, personal or other rights of any kind of any person or entity or is otherwise unlawful.
- Nothing in the 鈥淐ontribution鈥� infringes any duty of confidentiality which any of the Author/Artist(s) may owe to anyone else or violates any contract, express or implied, of any of the Author/Artist(s).
Questions?
If you would like to submit to the Journal of Comparative Media Arts but are unsure of the Copyright agreement, please contact us at cmajournal@sfu.ca.