LICENSE TO PUBLISH (US OFFICIAL)

(PHOTOGRAPH OR ART)

THIS AGREEMENT made this day of

(Month and Year)

BETWEEN:

CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING (CSP)/ÉDITIONS SCIENCES CANADA (ESC),

operating as NRC Research Press

(herein referred to as “NRC Research Press”)

AND:

(name and address of copyright holder or authorized signing officer of institution, government or corporation)

  1. This Agreement refers to the photograph or artwork entitled and (or) described as follows:

(hereinafter the “Photograph or artwork”)

  1. I declare that I am: an official of the government of the United States of America, and I confirm that the Photograph or artwork is a work created by a U.S. government employee as part of her or his official duties and as such is expressly excluded from US Copyright protection, and I hereby grant to NRC Research Press, on behalf of my employer, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to my employer’s interest in any copyright that may exist outside the United States of America in respect of the Photograph or artwork for the following purposes:

(a)for incorporation into a journal (including on the cover) entitled [Insert title of Journal], including the creation of materials for the promotion, publicity, advertising and merchandising of the journal, to be distributed, published, and republished in all media and all formats now known or hereafter devised (including but not limited to paper copy, CD-ROM, e-book, website publication, and compilations of the same) on a world-wide basis;

(b)to sub-license such rights to aggregators and other electronic distributors; and

(c)to manipulate the Photograph or artwork, including but not limited to colour correction and cropping.

  1. I also declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief the Photograph or artwork does not infringe on the copyright or other proprietary rights of any third party.
  2. I understand that my submission of this Photograph or artwork does not guarantee publication. If the Photograph or artwork is withdrawn, rejected, or not published within 2 years after acceptance, the license is revoked.

Signed at on
(City, Province or State)(Date)
Per:
(Signature)
Name & Title:
(Please Print)

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