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Contributor’s Responsibilities with Respect to Third Party Materials.
You are responsible for: (i) including full attribution for any materials not original to the Contribution; (ii) securing and
submitting with the Contribution written permissions for any third party materials allowing publication in all media and
all languages throughout the universe for the full legal term of copyright; and (iii) making any payments due for such
permissions. SAGE is a signatory of the STM Permissions Guidelines, which may be reviewed online.
Termination.
The Proprietor and SAGE, together in their absolute discretion, may determine that the Contribution should not be
published in the Journal. If in the rare circumstance the decision is made not to publish the Contribution after
accepting it for publication, then all rights in the Contribution granted to the Proprietor shall revert to you and this
Agreement shall be of no further force and effect, and neither you nor the Proprietor nor SAGE will have any obligation
to the other with respect to the Contribution.
General Provisions.
This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract made in England and shall be construed and applied in all respects
in accordance with English law and the parties submit and agree to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
This Agreement may be executed in counterparts each of which shall be deemed the original, all of which together
shall constitute one and the same Agreement. A faxed copy or other electronic copy shall be deemed as an original.
This transaction may be conducted by electronic means and the parties authorize that their electronic signatures act
as their legal signatures of this Agreement. This Agreement will be considered signed by a party when their electronic
signature is transmitted. Such signature shall be treated in all respects as having the same effect as an original
handwritten signature. (You are not required to conduct this transaction by electronic means or use an electronic
signature, but if you do so, then you hereby give your authorization pursuant to this paragraph.)
No amendment or modification of any provision of this Agreement shall be valid or binding unless made in writing and
signed by all parties.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to its subject matter, and
supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings and representations. The invalidity or
unenforceability of any particular provision of this Agreement shall not affect the other provisions, and this Agreement
shall be construed in all respects as if any invalid or unenforceable provision were omitted.
In the event a dispute arises out of or relating to this Agreement, the parties agree to first make a good-faith effort to
resolve such dispute themselves. Upon failing, the parties will engage in non-binding mediation with a mediator to be
mutually agreed on by the parties. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach
thereof, which the parties cannot settle themselves or through mediation, will be settled by arbitration.
Consent for Commercial Electronic Messages.
You hereby provide your express consent for the Proprietor, its affiliates and licensees (expressly including SAGE,
where SAGE is not the Proprietor), and their respective designees to contact you in connection with any business
communication or other correspondence. The parties agree that such consent may be withdrawn by you at a later time
by providing written notice (including by email) to the Proprietor (and/or SAGE if different than the Proprietor). This
clause shall survive expiration or earlier termination of this Agreement.
NOTES
1. The authors understand that they each have the option of signing and returning a separate copy of this Agreement. This
Agreement may be signed and executed by e-mail (a scanned hard copy of the Agreement with your signature on it or a digital
original copy with your electronic signature are equally acceptable), or by traditional hard copy.
2. Government work: If the Contribution was not prepared as part of the Contributor’s official duties, it is not a Government work.
If the Contribution was jointly authored, all the co-authors must have been Government employees at the time they prepared
the Contribution in order for it to be a Government work; if any co-author was not a Government employee, then the
Contribution is not a Government work. If the Contribution was prepared under a Government contract or grant, it is not a
Government work - in such case, copyright is usually owned by the contractor or grantee.
3. If you are required to submit an addendum to this Agreement by your employer or research funding body, please make your
request via email to contracts@sagepub.co.uk indicating the name of the Journal and the title of your paper.
4. SAGE will provide the Corresponding Author of the Contribution with an electronic copy of the Contribution. For information
about how you may share and re-use the Contribution, please consult Guidelines for SAGE Authors
5. For information on copyright and permissions and SAGE’s publishing policies (including Ethics & Responsibility),
please visit the SAGE Journal Author Gateway: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/page/journal-author-gateway
