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General Terms and Conditions for the Publication of Texts in Book Form (Print Book and E-Book)
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a. the right to electronically store data of the Authors work as well as the personal details of the Author; the right of duplication and dissemination of editions of the work, as a whole or in part, which are produced by means of digital storage and playback devices, regardless of the technical equipment and including any digital or interactive systems (e.g. CD-ROM, CD-I, e-book and other forms of electronic publishing); b. the right to feed and to save the work, as a whole or in part, in electronic databases and electronic data networks etc. and in that way, particularly within the framework of so-called on-demand services, make it available to a large number of users by means of digital or other storage and transmission technology. This also includes the right to provide access for interactive utilization of the work (if applicable in conjunction with other works), as a whole or in part, by the user within the framework of the rights of use mentioned in this Agreement; c. the license of any other kind of duplication and dissemination of the work, as a whole or in part, including, in particular, by means of digital, photomechanical or similar procedures (e.g. (digital) photocopying); d. the right to make use of the work, for valuable consideration or nonpaid, within the scope of the granted rights, by means of complete or partial printout, transmission, e-mail, download or other playback, including on the Internet, for advertising purposes for the Publisher or for third parties, including for their products; e. the right to archive the work alone or within the framework of other works and ways of utilization in tangible or intangible form, to include it in anthologies and/or databases and to grant third parties access to the work in whatever form (e.g. online services) the right to adapt the work and have the work adapted. Content-related adaptations, however, have to be coordinated with the Author in advance. 5. Since the Publisher works together with external service providers, organizations, businesses, persons, etc. (e.g. printing companies, book distributors, marketing agencies, libraries, media bodies, journalists, content providers, database operators, book intermediaries/booksellers, etc.), the Publisher is entitled to transfer the licenses granted in this Agreement, as a whole or in part, to third parties without the Authors consent. Example: In practice, in the course of the book marketing process, it may be necessary to transfer ancillary rights to third parties several times per day and it is not possible to ask the Authors permission every time. The display of a book cover of a work at an online bookshop such as amazon.com, for example, or the storage of the author name at a print shop or the showcasing of a copy of the work of the author in a bookshop would be illegal with a view to copyright law without the regulations of Art. 2, par. 5. 6. If the Publisher does not make use of individual licenses, the Author is entitled to revoke some or all of the licenses in accordance with the provisions of Article 41 of the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz; UrhG) after the expiration of five years.
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2. The Publisher must duplicate and disseminate the work as provided in and pursuant to the provisions of par. 1. The Publisher shall not be obliged to exploit any other rights granted in this Agreement. In the exercise of his duties he draws on external cooperation partners. If the annual number of copies sold and paid for in the booktrade should fall short of 50 for the first time, the Publisher is entitled to cease further production of the title. In such a case, the Author shall regain the license of duplication and dissemination (right of publishing). 3. The Publisher is entitled to determine the layout, date of publication, retail price and marketing strategies. 4. The Publisher shall endeavour to achieve an optimal promotion of the Authors work. Due to the specialized demand and the subject matter of the work the buying interest may be low and only a small number of copies or even no copies at all may be sold.
Art. 9 Liability
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1. The Author ensures that they have the sole authority to grant the rights of use protected by copyright for their work and that they have not granted any rights yet which are in conflict with the grant of rights under this Agreement. This also applies to the master texts/illustrations and the fonts used in the document submitted by the Author of which they own the rights of use. If they submit master texts/ illustrations/ fonts for which this is not the case or if this is unclear, the Author shall inform the Publisher of this fact as well as of any other legally relevant facts known to the Author or otherwise discernible. The Author does not hold the Publisher responsible for any and all claims of third parties including any legal defence and/or prosecution costs completely. 2. In the case of an academic work (thesis, dissertation, etc.), the Author additionally ensures that they own the exploitation rights for the work and that these rights have not been transferred to any other individual person or legal person. The transfer of the non-exclusive assignment of the license of duplication and dissemination as online publication, download file or e-book to the thesis sharing network(s) and to the full text server(s) specified by the Author in the web application LAP Online is expressly excepted from this provision. Also excluded is the transfer of the non-exclusive assignment of the license of duplication and dissemination to the university, where the work of the Author was handed in as part of an examination. The Author furthermore ensures that neither the examination regulations nor any other regulations are in conflict with a publication of their work. If their work is related to any organizations (companies, associations, institutions, etc.), the Author will have obtained permission for publication and commercial exploitation. In the case of an unauthorized publication, the Author shall be solely liable. 3. If it is the case that a person, such as a supervising tutor, the professorship or the university at which the work was compiled or submitted as part of an examination is named, or is to be named in the work of the author, or in the accompanying texts of the book (imprint, blurb or the like) the author has first to obtain the appropriate permission from the mentioned persons and/or institutions. 4. In respect of existing copyrights, the Publisher will rely on the information provided by the Author. If any rights, in particular copyrights, of third parties are violated by the publication due to failure to provide information, the Author shall be held solely liable. The Publisher cannot be held responsible for any published contents and shall not be liable for any consequences which may arise from the publication of illegal contents.
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3. In as far as this Agreement bears no other regulations, this Agreement is governed by the regulations of German and European (EC) law. The voidness or ineffectualness of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity of the other provisions of this Agreement. In such a case, the parties shall replace the defective clause by such a clause whose economical and legal meaning corresponds as much as possible with those of the defective provision. 4. Both parties have agreed that the place of performance and to the extent permitted by law place of jurisdiction for any disputes, which may arise under this Agreement is the current location of the headquarters of the Publisher.
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