AAAI Press Copyright Form

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(Please read and sign Part A only, unless you are a government employee and created your article/paper as part of your employment. If your work was performed under Government contract, but you are not a Government employee, sign Part A and see item 5 under returned rights.)

PART A--Copyright Transfer Form

The undersigned, desiring to publish the above article/paper in a publication of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI), hereby transfer their copyrights in the above article/paper to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), in order to deal with future requests for reprints, translations, anthologies, reproductions, excerpts, and other publications.

This grant will include, without limitation, the entire copyright in the article/paper in all countries of the world, including all renewals and extensions thereof, and also the exclusive right to create and distributed electronic versions of the article/paper, to the extent that such right is not subsumed under copyright.

The undersigned warrants that they are the sole author and owner of the copyright in the above article/paper, except for those portions shown to be in quotations; that the article/paper is original throughout; and that the undersigned right to make the grants set forth above is complete and unencumbered.

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Returned Rights

In return for these rights, AAAI hereby grants to the above authors, and the employers for whom the work was performed, royalty-free permission to:

  1. Retain all proprietary rights other than copyright (such as patent rights).
  2. Personal reuse of all or portions of the above article/paper in other works of their own authorship.
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  5. In the case of work performed under U.S. Government contract, AAAI grants the U.S. Government royalty-free permission to reproduce all or portions of the above article/paper, and to authorize others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

In the event the above article/paper is not accepted and published by AAAI, or is withdrawn by the author(s) before acceptance by AAAI, this agreement becomes null and void.

Author's Signature:_______________________________________

Date:_______________________________________

Employer for whom work was performed:_______________________________________

Title (if not author):_______________________________________

PART B-U.S. Government Employee Certification

This will certify that all authors of the above article/paper are employees of the U.S. Government and performed this work as part of their employment, and that the article/paper is therefore not subject to U.S. copyright protection.

The undersigned warrants that they are the sole author/translator of the above article/paper, and that the article/paper is original throughout, except for those portions shown to be in quotations.

U.S. Government Employee Authorized Signature:_______________________________________

Date:_______________________________________

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