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In order to publish your article, we require that you agree to the
terms and conditions set out below. This is a legally binding
agreement between you and Text Technology, McMaster University
(McMaster) so please read it carefully.
1. Copyright
You retain copyright in the article you have submitted for
publication (Article) in the Text Technology Journal (Journal) and
can reproduce the Article in any other forum or medium without
requiring McMaster’s consent.
2. Grant of licence
You grant McMaster a royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence
to publish, reproduce, communicate, adapt, modify and use your
article for any purpose and in any format or medium. This licence
includes the right to assign and sublicence McMaster’s rights under
this Agreement and to collect fees in exercising the rights under
this Agreement.
3. Moral rights
McMaster will identify you as the author of the Article and will not
make substantial changes to the Article with consulting you. McMaster
may edit the Article to make it suitable for publication in the
Journal and may prepare abstracts without requiring your consent.
4. Acknowledgment in republications
If you publish or make reference to the Article in any pre-print or
re-print, including in journals, conference papers and websites, you
must include a reference, with complete bibliographic citation, to
McMaster and the Journal.
5. Author’s warranties
You warrant that:
a. The Article is your own original work and does not infringe
the copyright, trade-mark, privacy or any other rights of any third
party;
b. If the Article contains any third party copyright or other
material, you have obtained permission from the third party for the
uses of the Article permitted under this Agreement;
c. The Article does not contain any material that is illegal,
defamatory, libelous or otherwise violates any applicable law;
d. You have not previously published the Article in the whole
or, if you have published it in part this is appropriately noted in
the Article; and
e. You have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement.
6. Term
This Agreement remains in effect for the term of the copyright in the
Article.
7. Payment
You acknowledge that you will not receive any payment from McMaster
for the rights granted in this Agreement. McMaster acknowledges that
it will not receive any payment from you for publication of the
Article by McMaster. Both you and McMaster acknowledge that this
Agreement is supported by other valuable and sufficient consideration.
8. Entire agreement
This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and McMaster and
supersedes any other agreement, understanding or communication,
either oral or in writing, between you and McMaster with respect to
the Article. This Agreement may only be modified in writing by the
agreement of both you and McMaster.
9. Binding Agreement
This Agreement is binding on and will inure to the benefit of you and
McMaster
and its heirs, administrators, successors and assigns.
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