International Financial Cryptography Association
Copyright Form

Policy on copyrights and publication

In connection with its publishing activities, it is the policy of the International Financial Cryptography Association (hereinafter referred to as "IFCA") to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its technical publications and to the individual contributions contained therein, in order to promote research in Financial Cryptography, to protect the interests of the IFCA, its authors and their employers, and, at the same time, to facilitate the appropriate archiving and distribution of this material by others. The IFCA currently contracts with a commercial publisher to distribute its technical publications throughout the world, using various means such as traditional paper printing, Internet distribution, and CD-ROM media. IFCA may also abstract and translate its publications, and articles contained therein, for inclusion in various compendiums and similar publications, etc. When an article is submitted to the IFCA for publication, the author implicitly consents that the IFCA has the rights to do all of these things.

Policy on Public Dissemination

This policy applies to all material submitted to IFCA: The IFCA must of necessity assume that material presented at its meetings or submitted to its publications is properly available for general dissemination to the world. It is the responsibility of the authors, not the IFCA, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it.

Furthermore, the IFCA must assume, if authors use within their article material that has been previously published and/or is copyrighted by another party, that permission has been obtained for such use and that any required credit lines, copyright notices, etc., are duly noted.

IFCA Obligations

In exercising its rights under this agreement, the IFCA will make all reasonable efforts to act in the interests of the authors and employers as well as in its own interest. In handling third-party republication requests for an IFCA work, the IFCA requires that the consent of the first-named author be sought as a condition in granting republication (of a full paper) to others.; and 2) the consent of the employer be obtained as a condition in granting permission to others to reuse all or portions of a paper for promotion or marketing purposes.

Author/Company Rights

If you are employed and you prepared your paper as a part of your job, the rights to your work may rest initially with your employer. In that case, when you sign the copyright and consent to publish agreement, IFCA assumes 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. (See also the Public Dissemination policy above.)

Joint Authorship

For jointly authored works, all of the joint authors should sign, or one of the authors should sign as an authorized agent for the others. In the case of multiple authorship where one or more authors are signatories under Part II of this copyright transfer form, but at least one author is not, the non-signatory of that Part should sign Part I of this copyright transfer form.



Copyright Agreement

 

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PART I

(Government employees whose work is not subject to copyright should so certify by signing Part II below.)

The undersigned hereby assigns all copyright rights in and to the above work to The International Financial Cryptography Association (hereinafter referred to as "IFCA"). The undersigned also represents and warrants that the work is original and that the undersigned is the author of the work, except possibly for material such as text passages, figures, and data that clearly identify the original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required. The undersigned also represents possession of the power and authority to make and execute this assignment.

In return for these rights, the IFCA recognizes the retained rights noted in Items 1 and 4 below, and grants to the above authors and employers for whom the work may have been performed a royalty-free license to use the material as noted in Items 2, 3, and 4. Item 6 stipulates that authors and employers must seek permission to republish in cases not covered by Items 2, 3, 4, and 5.

1.  Employers (or authors) retain all proprietary rights in any process, procedure, or article of manufacture described in the work.

2.  Authors/employers may reproduce or authorize others to reproduce the above work, material extracted verbatim from the above work, or derivative works for the author's personal use or for company use provided that the source and the IFCA copyright notice are indicated, that the copies are not used in any way that implies IFCA endorsement of a product or service of an employer, and that the copies themselves are not offered for sale.

3.  Authors may publish their contributions on their respective personal Web pages after the conclusion of the Conference to which their papers have been accepted, subject to the restriction that it should carry a prominent copyright notice of the form "© IFCA" to indicate that the copyright for this contribution is held by IFCA. In addition, because IFCA uses a commercial publisher to distribute its work, it is suggested that authors include a link to the primary source of publication, which at this time is http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html.

4. Authors/employers may make limited distribution of all or portions of the above work prior to publication provided they inform the IFCA of the nature and extent of such limited distribution and gain the consent of IFCA prior thereto.

5. IFCA recognizes that work performed under a Government contract or grant may require that the Government retain royalty-free permission to reproduce all or portions of the above work, and to authorize others to do so, for Official Government purposes only. IFCA further recognizes that certain non-Government contracts or grants may have similar requirements. In either case, appropriate documentation may be attached, but IFCA's Copyright Form MUST BE SIGNED.

6. For all circumstances not covered by Items 2, 3, 4, and 5, authors/employers must request permission from the IFCA to reproduce or authorize the reproduction of the work or material extracted verbatim from the work.

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PART II to be completed in case an author is a Government employee

Authors who are Government employees in jurisdictions which preclude the copyright of Official work are not required to sign Part I of the IFCA Copyright Form, but any non-Government coauthors are required to sign Part I (see Joint authorship above).

Authors whose work was performed under a Government contract or grant, but who are not Government employees, are required to sign Part I of this form. (Note: If your work was performed under Government contract but you are not a Government employee, sign Part I of this form and see item 5).

This will certify that all authors of the above work are employees of the Government and performed this work as part of their Official duties and that the work is therefore not subject to copyright protection.

 

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Please direct all questions about IFCA copyright or this form to the President or Vice President of the IFCA.

(IFCA copyright form, 2001-08-23)