Copyright

Copyright Ownership

The copyright owner retains all of his or her copyright ownership rights under copyright law and grants the university a non-exclusive right to use content posted in the repository.

Information for Contributors

Under the terms of the USC Deposit Licence only those with the authority to do so may deposit material into the repository. Responsibility for ensuring that the copyrights of others, including publishers and individuals, are not infringed rests with the person making the deposit.

See also the depositors information and Frequently Asked Questions

Information for users

You may copy whole papers for your individual, personal non-commercial use subject to copyright laws of the country in which you reside, providing the material is properly attributed. If the material is required for any other purpose, you should contact the author or publisher direct as requests of this nature are not processed through this repository.

Metadata rights

Harvesting fulltext documents from this repository is not permitted; however, metadata can be harvested by third parties for purposes related to the discovery of the archive's contents.

Do you think your copyright has been infringed?

If you believe copyright work that is available on this site constitutes copyright infringement or a breach of agreed licence or contract please use the Notification of Infringement Form.
This form is designed for you to provide sufficient information for our investigation and response.