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Submit an Account about Witnessing: Copyright Release Form My
mission through the Witnessing Project and the Archive is
to help people share with others experiences they have had witnessing
violence and violation by providing a central and safe environment
for people to read and learn about others’ experiences in witnessing
violence. This mission is best served by promoting wide access
to and dissemination of witnessing accounts while ensuring
that this dissemination
preserves the integrity of the original accounts. When a witnessing account is submitted for inclusion
in the Witnessing Archive, the copyright for that work must
be transferred to
me, Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., as the person who represents
the Archive. Having me, as the representative of the Archive,
own the copyright in
a work helps to ensure the continuing availability of the
work not only through its original publication in the Archive
but also through later
derivative works that might be produced to further the Witnessing
Project’s
mission. It also provides a mechanism to preserve the integrity
of the original work and helps ensure that proper attribution
is given the original
author(s) in all future uses. By transferring your rights in your witnessing account to me,
as the representative of the Archive, you give me the right to use all
or part of your account for any purposes, including in lectures, articles
and books, without asking your permission each time the account is used.
Once you sign the Copyright Transfer form, copies of your account may
not be used by you or others without my permission. Every effort will
be made to consider and honor requests for permission that are in keeping
with the mission of the Witnessing Project and Archive. I wish that we did not live in a world that required these legal protections and I am sorry to have to impose them on you. I hope that you will understand that I do this to protect the integrity of the Witnessing Archive, which I have created as a service and as a vehicle for global transformation. I consider the reading and disseminating of these accounts a privilege. It is my intention and commitment to treat the accounts with the utmost honor and respect. The copyright transfer form is accessible on a separate page. This form provides for the signatures of authors indicating transfer of the copyright of the subject work to me as the representative of the Archive. If there is more than one author of a witnessing account, all authors must sign the copyright transfer form. It is not sufficient for one author to sign on behalf of coauthors. Coauthors may all sign the same form or each sign a separate form.
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