Clauses For Everyone

Clauses For Everyone

The copyright in the Article shall remain with you, and nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as an assignment of copyright ownership to the [journal publisher]. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all rights in the Article under the Copyright Act of 1976 belong to you.

This is a contract for publication of an article in a scholarly journal (law review). The author retains the copyright in the work; the publisher receives only those rights spelled out in the agreement. Anything not specifically granted stays with the author. The actual extent of author-friendliness will depend on what rights the author specifically grants.