

Proceedings of the 18
th
International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
3.2
Patent and Trademark Rights
The right to be identified as the Author(s) (i.e. by asserting
Authors’ rights under copyright law).
3.3
Re-use of Material by Author(s)
In assigning publication permission, the right of the Author to
use parts of his or her Material elsewhere are retained. Figures,
tables, and other limited extracts may be used without
permission as long as they represent less than 20 % of the new
work. However, republishing the whole article, or a substantial
part of it, requires the permission of the Publisher.
The Publisher shall maintain a firm policy against duplicate
publication unless there are exceptional circumstances.
3.4
Re-use of Material by Others
The re-use of three figures, tables or text extracts less than 100
words by third parties is free of charge and permitted without
the Author’s or Publishers permission. In all case proper credit
must be clearly given as stated above.
All requests to reproduce or re-use the whole or a substantial
part of the Material in another publication will be conditional
upon the Authors’ consent and subject to the Publisher’s
approval.
The party seeking permission will be instructed to write to
the Publisher and to obtain the Authors’ consent.
APPENDIX B
EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATION AGREEMENT
Exclusive Publication Agreement
Publisher: ___ ________________________________________________________________
Publication Title: _____________________________________________________________
Article: _____________________________________________________________________
Article reference no: __________________________________________________________
Corresponding Author’s name and address:
1. Statement of rights and acceptance of conditions of publication by the Corresponding Author on
behalf of all authors of the article
The Author(s) hereby asserts to be identified as the Author(s) of the Work.
The Author(s) warrant(s) that the Manuscript is based on his/her/their original work, that the
Manuscript has not been published before, and is not currently under consideration for publication
elsewhere, and that it contains no libellous or unlawful statements and that it in no way infringes the
rights of others.
The Publisher is empowered to make such editorial changes as may be necessary to make the work
suitable for publication in printed and electronic form. The Corresponding Author will be consulted if
substantive changes are required. No changes to the work may be made after the date of first
publication, whether in print or digitally, other than for gross factual errors, breach of third party
copyright, or content that is defamatory or otherwise unlawful.
2. Assignment of Exclusive Publishing Right
(a) Name and address of owner of copyright owner:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
(b) The owner hereby grants the Publisher exclusive permission to publish the Manuscript in paper,
electronic, and facsimile formats, and for electronic capture, reproduction, and licensing in all formats,
in whole or in part, in the original and also grants non-exclusive rights to deal with requests from third
parties.
Signature:
_________________________________________________
Date:
____________________________________________
NOTES
Rights of Authors(s)
The Rights of Author(s) are described in detail in the attached document: “Publishing
Policy and Terms of Use” (Publishing Policy).
Publishing Conditions are detailed in Section 3 of the attached Publishing Policy
document.
Author(s) right to use material
In assigning publication permission, the right of the Author to use parts of his or her
Material elsewhere are retained. Figures, tables, and other limited extracts may be
used without permission. However, republishing the whole article, or a substantial
part of it, requires the permission of the Publisher. The Publisher shall maintain a firm
policy against duplicate publication unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Requests from third parties
The re-use of three figures, tables or text extracts less than 100 words in length by
third parties is free of charge and permitted without the Author’s or Publishers
permission. In all case proper credit must be clearly given.
All requests to reprint the Material, or a substantial part of it, in another publication
will be subject to Publisher’s approval. The party seeking permission will be
instructed to submit the request in writing to the Publisher. The Author(s) shall be
informed by the Publisher thereof.
Employers as copyright holder
In some cases copyright will be held by the Author’s employer. If so, the Publisher
requires non-exclusive permission to deal with requests from third parties, on the
understanding that any requests it receives from third parties will be handled as
outlined above (i.e., the author and not the author’s employer will be asked to approve
the proposed use).
An employer may use material from the Material in reports and elsewhere, but must
not republish the whole article or a substantial part of it without permission. The
employer must abide by the Publisher terms and conditions for posting of PDFs.
Posting material on to servers
Reference is made to terms and conditions of the Publishing Policy Statement.
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