Copyright Notice

1. As an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the following:

  • Make copies (print or electronic) of the article for your personal use, including for your classroom teaching use;
  • Make copies and distribute such copies (including through e-mail) of the article to research colleagues, for personal use by such colleagues (but not commercially or systematically, e.g. via an e-mail list or list server);
  • Present the article at a meeting or conference and distribute copies of the article to the delegates attending such meeting;
  • For your employer, if the article is a ‘work for hire’, made within the scope of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g. training);
  • Retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process, procedure, or article of manufacture described in the article;
  • Include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially);
  • Use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (after publication of the article in the journal); and prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgment of its original publication in the journal;
  • May reproduce or authorize others to reproduce the article, material extracted from the article, or derivative works for the author’s personal use or company use, provided that the source and the copyright notice are indicated, the copies are not used in any way that implies FORPIT endorsement of a product or service of any employer, and the copies themselves are not offered for sale.
  • All copies, print or electronic, or other use of the paper or article must include the appropriate bibliographic citation for the article’s publication in the journal.

2. Requests from third parties

Although authors are permitted to re-use all or portions of the article in other works, this does not include granting third-party requests for reprinting, republishing, or other types of re-use. Requests for all uses not included above, including the authorization of third parties to reproduce or otherwise use all or part of the article (including figures and tables), should be referred to FORPIT by going to our website.

3. Author Online Use

  • Personal Servers. Authors and/or their employers shall have the right to post the accepted version of articles pre-print version of the article, or the revised personal version of the final text of the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on their servers or the servers of their institutions or employers without permission from FORPIT, provided that the posted version includes a prominently displayed FORPIT copyright notice and, when published, a full citation to the original publication, including a link to the article abstract in the journal homepage. Authors shall not post the final, published versions of their papers;
  • Classroom or Internal Training Use. An author is expressly permitted to post any portion of the accepted version of his/her articles on the author’s web site or the servers of the author’s institution or company in connection with the author’s teaching, training, or work responsibilities, provided that the appropriate copyright, credit, and reuse notices appear prominently with the posted material. Examples of permitted uses are lecture materials, course packs, e-reserves, conference presentations, or in-house training courses;

4. Articles in Press (AiP) service

FORPIT may choose to publish an abstract or portions of the paper before we publish it in the journal. Please contact our Production department immediately if you do not want us to make any such prior publication for any reason, including disclosure of a patentable invention.

5. Author/Employer Rights

If you are employed and prepared the article on a subject within the scope of your employment, the copyright in the article belongs to your employer as a work-for-hire. In that case, FORPIT assumes that when you sign this Form, you are authorized to do so by your employer and that your employer has consented to the transfer of copyright, to the representation and warranty of publication rights, and all other terms and conditions of this Form. If such authorization and consent has not been given to you, an authorized representative of your employer should sign this Form as the Author.

6. FORPIT Copyright Ownership

It is the formal policy of FORPTI to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its technical publications and to the individual contributions contained therein, to protect the interests of FORPIT, its authors, and their employers, and, at the same time, to facilitate the appropriate re-use of this material by others.