Please use this form to grant the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department a license as specified below for all of your Technical Reports and Technical Notes. Once you have signed and submitted this form to your department's Technical Reports Coordinator, you will not have to sign any Single Permission Forms.

YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS AUTHOR

Signing the attached "University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Reports and Notes Nonexclusive-Right-To-Publish Blanket Agreement" gives the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department nonexclusive revocable rights to all forms of the technical reports and notes including print and electronic. You can still publish the reports and notes as articles or books but you will need to tell the publisher(s) that you have given the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department nonexclusive rights to the works.

Below you will find examples of a form you can attach to the publisher's copyright form.

Coauthors should be aware that any of the authors can sign agreements with publishers and that this becomes legally binding.

Authors of theses that are technical reports should know that in the UMI agreement the author grants exclusive rights to the reproduction and distribution in microform and from microform to paper.

University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Reports and Technical Notes Nonexclusive-Right-To-Publish Blanket Agreement

THIS AGREEMENT, made this ______ day of _________, 19__, between ____________________("Author") and the University of Computer Science Department ("UTKCS") concerns all technical reports and all technical notes submitted by the Author to UTKCS after the above date for inclusion in the TR, LAWN, or SRWN series.

Author agrees to submit only works to which Author has the right and authority to make the grants and assignments set out below. For every report the Author elects to submit for publication in any of the above-named series:

(1) Author grants and assigns to UTKCS a nonexclusive, revocable, royalty-free license to publish, perform, display, and distribute the works in print, microform, and electronic form, directly or through sub licenses or both, at UTKCS's option.

(2) Author agrees that UTKCS may make charges for copies of or access to the technical reports in print, microform, or electronic form.

(3) UTKCS agrees to make the works available electronically for at least one year after the date of submission and as long thereafter as, in UTKCS's sole discretion, conditions justify, unless Author withdraws the work as explained in (4) below. UTKCS may, at its option, also make the works available in print or microform in the manner that other UTKCS technical reports and notes are distributed.

(4) Author retains the right to withdraw a work from further reproduction, distribution, display, and performance on sixty (60) days written notice to UTKCS. In the case of withdrawal, UTKCS's sole obligation with regard to sub-licensees will be to notify them by electonic or written means of the withdrawal.

(5) The following Notice Concerning Copyright will be included with the electonically distributed copies of technical reports:

You are granted permission for the non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, BUT this permission is only for a period of 45 (forty-five) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s).

(6) STUDENTS: NOTE THIS SPECIAL PROVISION FOR DISSERTATIONS: Author and UTKCS agree that if Author submits a dissertation, a) Author shall identify the work as such on the submission form; b) PROVIDED THAT AUTHOR SO IDENTIFIES THE WORK, this license shall cover electronic and print form but not microform for that specific work; c) UTKCS shall make that work available in electronic and print form as provided above but not in microform.

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Author

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ATTACHMENT FOR PUBLISHER AGREEMENTS

Note: this form should be attached to the publisher copyright form when the material you are submitting for publication is in whole, or in substantial part, available through the University of Tennessee CSTR Digital Library.

I,____________________, have granted the University of Tennessee Computer Science Department nonexclusive rights to perform, display, and distribute all/ a substantial part/ of an earlier version of
(name of article)________________________________________________
to be published in
(name of publication)____________________________________________.

The University of Tennessee Computer Science Department has the right to make this information available through electronic distribution and through its printed technical reports series.