Answer. The copyright transfer process is now fully electronic and integrated in the submission process and hence you no longer need to download and send a signed copy of the copyright form. since you will need to go through electronic signing and transfer process.

Answer. The electronic Copyright Form (eCF) is a fully digital version of copyright forms you have been signing for past conferences.Depending on whether or not the conference is an IEEE conference, you may be forwarded to the IEEE website to fill out the form directly at their site, or you may go through our own version of electronic copyright transfer agreement collection system.

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Answer. Simply by typing your name at the proper location and filling out the date.

Answer. Until the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (“E-Sign”) was signed into law in 2000, a handwritten signature on all copyright transfer forms was required. The E-Sign Act now gives an electronically signed form the same legal effect as that of an original, hand-signed document.

Answer. If this was a financial transaction then we would be obliged to use such technology. Given the relatively modest status of this kind of transaction, it is not necessary to go to such a level of security.

Answer. The only way to get to the eCF is if you’ve already been authenticated through the manuscript submission process. Since only the owner of the PIN or an authorized user can access the system, the authetication process is implict.

Answer. For the IEEE process, you will be asked a series of questions, Once they have been answered, you will see the information on the form. After confirming the information, you will need to do is type in your name and date in provided boxes at the bottom. Once you click on the “Submit” button, the process will be completed, and you will automatically receive a copy of the signed Form via email.

Answer. If you know that you are not in an authorized position to sign the IEEE Copyright Form, then have the suitable person submit the information. The burden of having the right person complete the process is left to the authors

Answer. Copyright is one of a group of intellectual property rights (or laws) that are intended to protect the interests of an author or copyright owner. These laws give an author/owner nearly exclusive control over the use of his/her work. In particular, copyright protects the specific expression of an idea (e.g., the specific wording of your text) but not the idea itself. Copyright comes into existence the moment a "work" (an article, a book, a computer program, an email, a symphony, a sculpture, etc.) is first fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which it can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

Answer. When an author signs the Copyright Form, he/she is transferring ownership of the copyright rights in the work to the appropriate organization. Any use of the content of the "work" in reproduction requires permission from the organization that hold the copyright to the "work".

Answer. The copyright protects the specific expression of an idea (e.g., the specific wording of your text) but not the idea itself. Hence the idea expressed in a significantly modified or expanded form may be submitted to another conference/journal.

Answer. Contact information of the person responsible for copyright related issue ot the cognizant organization appears on the copyright form. Please contact them directly for further clarification on the matter.