ISCA JOURNAL COPYRIGHT FORM

This form is intended for original, previously unpublished manuscripts submitted to the International Journal for Computers and Their Applications. The completed and signed form is necessary as a prerequisite for publication. Please send it with the final version of your paper. No other form or wording modifications are allowed.

Title of Paper:

Author(s):

Part A: Copyright Transfer Form

The undersigned hereby transfer any and all rights in and to the paper including without limitation all copyrights to The International Society for Computers and Their Applications, Inc., known as ISCA. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its 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.

In return, ISCA agrees to the following:

1. Employers/authors retain all proprietary rights in any process, procedure, or article of manufacture described in the paper.
   
2. Employers/authors may copy, or authorize the copy of, the paper, or derivative portions of the paper for company/personal use, provided the copies are not offered for sale, that the source of the material is indicated, and that ISCA's endorsement is not implied by the use.
   
3. Employers/authors must request permission from ISCA for copy privileges not covered by items 1,2 above (such as third party requests for reprinting, republishing, etc.).
   
4. ISCA recognizes that the U.S. government has royalty free permission to copy, or authorize the copy of, all/portions of the paper for official U.S. government purposes only, when the contained work was done under a U.S. government grant/contract and the grant/contract so requires.
   
   

If the paper is not accepted and published by ISCA, or is withdrawn by the author(s) before acceptance, this agreement becomes null and void.

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Authorized Signature Title

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Employer (for whom the work was performed) Date

Part B: U.S. Government Employee Certification

This certifies that all authors of the paper are employees of the U.S. government and performed this work as part of their official duties, and that therefore the paper is not subject to U.S. copyright protection.

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Authorized Signature and Title

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Government Organization/ Date

Part C: Crown Copyright (ISCA recognizes and will honor the Crown Copyright
(British Commonwealth) as it does U.S. Government work)

This certifies that all authors of the paper are subject to Crown Copyright.

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Authorized Signature Title

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Government Organization Date

Information for Employers/Authors

It is the policy of ISCA to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its publications, and to the individual contributions therein, in order to protect the interests of ISCA, its authors and their employers. ISCA will make every reasonable effort to act in the interests of employers/authors as well as in its own interests. For all third party republication requests, ISCA requires that:

• The consent of the first-named author be sought as a condition in granting republication rights.
  
• The consent of the employer be obtained as a condition in granting permission for reuse of a paper or portion thereof for promotion/marketing purposes.
  

If you are employed and you prepared your paper as a part of your job, the rights to your paper initially rest 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.

For jointly-authored papers, either all the authors should sign, or one may sign as an agent for all. For U.S. government-sponsored work where not all authors are government employees, any non government author-participants should sign part A; authors who are government employees need not sign.

All questions regarding ISCA copyright policy should be directed to: ISCA Headquarters, 975 Walnut Street, Suite 132,Cary, NC 27511, (919) 467-5559.