JAFSCD AUTHOR AGREEMENT (COPYRIGHT TRANSFER AGREEMENT)

The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (hereafter referred to as JAFSCD) is pleased to have the opportunity to publish your manuscript. In order that JAFSCD may obtain copyright protection for the contents of the Journal, it is necessary for you to execute this formal transfer to your copyright in this manuscript to JAFSCD. JAFSCD acknowledges the receipt of your manuscript:

CONSENT TO PUBLISH

In consideration of the publication by the JAFSCD of the above named manuscript, the undersigned as Author(s) transfers exclusively to the JAFSCD all rights defined by the Copyright Law of the United States in and to the above named manuscript in its entirety, including all subsidiary rights. The rights transferred herein shall remain the property of the JAFSCD for the full duration of these rights under the Copyright Law of the United States. If it should become necessary, the Author(s) agree(s) to assist the JAFSCD in registering the Copyright in the name of the JAFSCD.

The JAFSCD, in turn, grants to the Author(s) the right to republication in any work in which he or she is the author or editor. The JAFSCD further grants to the Author(s) the right to distribute the above-noted work in any classroom in which he or she is teacher, subject only to the Author(s) giving proper credit in any such derivative work and on any copies distributed for classroom use. Proper notice may be given as follows: [Copyright, [date], Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development; reproduced with permission of New Leaf Associates, Inc. of Ithaca, New York.]

WARRANTY OF AUTHORSHIP

The Author(s) warrant(s) that the above-named manuscript is his or her own work of authorship and has not been published previously. If any material included by the Author(s) in the above-noted manuscript (including tables, charts, or figures) is under prior copyright protection by another proprietor, the Author(s) undertake(s) to obtain permission from that copyright proprietor for the inclusion of such material in this manuscript to be published by the JAFSCD. The Author(s) further warrant(s) that this manuscript was not written as part of his or her official duties as an employee(s) of the United States government. Since copyright protection is not available for a work of the United States government, the Author(s) agree(s) to disclose fully to the JAFSCD at the time of the signing of this agreement, the circumstances of federal employment which might invoke this bar to copyright protection of the manuscript.

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