Terms and conditions
Young Writers Project Inc. is a non-profit dedicated to helping students write better. It is a unique partnership of students, teachers, professional writers, newspapers, radio stations and artists. Each week we publish a classroom exercise, great student writing and a student photo or piece of art in Vermont newspapers. We also publish work on radio and in other media. This Web site publishes additional student writing, a blog and a forum.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
CONTRIBUTOR ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS
Young Writers Project Inc.
We are pleased that you are contributing work to the Young Writers Project as a writer, visual artist, photographer, musician, filmmaker or dramatist.
Since we are now an independent, non-profit organization, we must establish clear legal ownership to ensure we have the rights to publish the works being submitted and to authorize publication of the works in other publications in any format. Our aim, after all, is to have as many people as possible see the work submitted to the Young Writers Project.
While the legal language might be off-putting, it is important for you to read this entire agreement and understand that by the act of submitting you are agreeing to its terms which grant to the Young Writers Project Inc. the copyright to submitted material.
It is necessary for Young Writers Project Inc. to do this in order for it to publish the work in other publications amd media; that, after all, is the principle aim of this project. However, any author or artist may retain all commercial rights -- permission to use or publish his or her work in any fashion and in any publication or medium in perpetuity -- by simply writing or e-mailing Geoffrey Gevalt, editor of Young Writers Project Inc., 69 Swift St., Suite 300, South Burlington, VT, 05403. We feel this will work for everyone: We'll be able to freely publish student work and students will be able to do anything they want with their work.
Here are the details of the agreement; please excuse all the legalese:
By submitting this work to Young Writers Project Inc. you are hereby granting your consent and agreement to the following:
The Young Writers Project irrevocably owns all rights, title and interest to the work submitted to the Young Writers Project in perpetuity and throughout the world;
These rights include, but are not limited to: the right to publish or license others to publish the work in full, in part, in summarized, altered, or excerpted versions, and with updates, at any time in hard copy, on the Internet, via television broadcast, in hard-copy or electronic reprints, in hard-copy or electronic bulletins or anthologies, or in a computer-accessed databases, information retrieval systems or other archives, including on CD or DVD, or in or using any other media existing now or to be devised hereafter, all with no payment to the author;
The Young Writers may edit the work to conform with its size, format, style, or other requirements. You also agree to cooperate with the Young Writers Project in verifying the work, responding to questions about the work and in responding to any complaints, claims or litigation that may arise regarding the work;
You are not an employee of the Young Writers Project.
Further, you warrant that, to the best of your knowledge:
That to the best of your knowledge the author/creator of the work being submitted is the sole creator of the work, that the work is original, free of plagiarism and not previously published elsewhere in whole or in part;
The rights to the work have not previously assigned, transferred, encumbered or conveyed such rights; and
Reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the work does not defame, libel, slander, violate rights of privacy or infringe the copyright, proprietary rights or any other rights of any third party.
If you have any questions about this agreement, do not hesitate to contact Geoffrey Gevalt, editor of Young Writers Project, Inc.
CLICK HERE if you have read and agree to terms and are ready to submit.
