AAAI Copyright Letter
Thank you for your interest in the publications of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). As you may know, AAAI publications are distributed throughout the world. They are also translated, abstracted, added to a full-text online database, referenced in the AAAI World Wide Web, and excerpted in other publications with international circulation. AAAI assumes that authors submitting papers to AAAI do so with the understanding that, if the article is accepted, AAAI has the right to reproduce, publish, disseminate electronically, and do all of the things it normally does with such an article or paper.
To facilitate these activities, it is the policy of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence to own the copyrights in its publications, and the contributions contained therein, in order to make the work available electronically, deal with future requests for reprints, translations, anthologies, reproductions, and excerpts, and to protect the interests of its authors and itself. It is therefore necessary for you to transfer copyright of your article to AAAI by signing the copyright transfer form, either Part A-Copyright Transfer Form, or, if you are a government employee and your work was performed as part of your employment, Part B-U.S. Government Employee Certification.
If you are employed, and you prepared your paper as part of your job, the rights to your paper may initially rest with your employer. In such cases, you should obtain authorization from your employer to transfer copyright. We will assume that you have done so and are therefore duly authorized to sign the transfer form, and that your employer has consented to all of the terms and conditions of this form. If not, it should be signed by someone so authorized.
For jointly authored papers, only the principal coauthor need sign. AAAI will assume that the signing coauthor does so with the authorization of the remaining coauthors.
Authors who are employees of the United States Government, and/or whose papers are not copyrightable are not required to sign Part A, but any coauthors outside the Government contract should sign.
Part B of the form is to be used instead of Part A only if all authors are United States Government employees and the paper was prepared as part of their job, or the work is an uncopyrightable product of a U.S. Government contract.
AAAI authors are granted the right to present orally the submitted or similar material in any form; the right to make reuse, with credit to AAAI, in the author's own publications; the right to republish, with credit to AAAI, in works published by the author's employer or for the employer's internal purposes; the right to reproduce the material for peer review in reasonable quantities, provided an AAAI copyright notice is displayed; the right to post the paper on his or her own personal web page (or his or her employer's web page), provided an AAAI copyright notice is displayed and a link to AAAI's web site is provided; and all proprietary rights other than copyright. In addition, AAAI will seek the approval of its authors as a matter of personal professional courtesy when approving permissions for republishing by third parties.
The copyright transfer form must be returned before AAAI may proceed with publication of your paper/article. Thank you for your prompt cooperation.