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SISO Copyright Policy SISO requires that a copy of the following SISO Copyright Form be completed and submitted along with the hardcopy version of each SIW paper. Our purpose in copyrighting SISO papers and presentations is to preserve our right to prevent people from misusing these materials in ways we may not even be able to foresee. We do not intend to limit the use of this material by its authors or their employers. We intend to grant blanket permission to anyone to use the material for non-commercial purposes by means of the following notice, which will be incorporated with all hardcopy, CD-ROM, and Web site representations of SISO copyrighted materials: Copyright 2006, SISO, Inc. Permission is hereby granted to quote any of the material herein, or to make copies thereof, for non-commercial purposes, as long as proper attribution is made and this copyright notice is included. All other uses are prohibited without written permission from SISO, Inc. View the SISO Copyright Form. You may obtain additional copies of this material from SISO, Inc., P.O. Box 781238, Orlando, FL 32878-1238 or from SISO's website. If we *don't* include a copyright notice on SISO papers and proceedings, both in hardcopy and electronic form, then we are effectively placing them in the public domain, and neither SISO nor the original authors have any right to stop anyone from using (or misusing) these materials in any way they want to! Finally, please note that US and British Commonwealth government employees are exempt from signing the copyright assignment; if all authors are exempt, one author merely needs to sign a statement to that effect. |