ALIA e-prints - copyright

To protect contributors and ALIA, contributing authors must read and acknowledge an agreement stating that:

• the creators warrant that to the best of their knowledge and belief that the e-prints are original works; the creators are the owners of all of the intellectual property in the e-prints; or the creators are entitled to deal with the intellectual property in the e-prints by publishing the e-prints on the internet; the creators have the right, power and authority to enter into this agreement and to grant the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) the rights contained in this agreement; and the ALIA's use of the e-prints pursuant to this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  
  
• The creators acknowledge and agree that ALIA is not responsible or liable for any breach of the creators' intellectual property rights in the e-prints, in particular any breach of copyright, as a result of the use of the e-prints pursuant to this agreement.

ALIA acknowledges that the rights granted by the creators to deposit, store, and make the e-prints publicly available do not cause any transfer or assignment of any proprietary rights in the intellectual property in the e-prints to ALIA. In other words, ownership and responsibility stays with the creator, even though the content is hosted by ALIA.