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[JOURNAL NAME]
Published by Wiley on behalf of(the “Owner” of the Journal)
or

Published by Wiley (the “Owner” of the Journal)
or
Published by Wiley and(together the “Owner” of the Journal)

LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PUBLISHING CC BY
Date:
Responsible Corresponding Author (the “Author”) name:Author email address:
Manuscript number:
Re: Manuscript or work entitledfor publication in
published by(the “Contribution”)(the “Journal”)(“Wiley”) s

Dear Author:
Thank you for submitting your Contribution for publication. In order to expedite the editing andpublishing process and enable Wiley to disseminate your Contribution to the fullest extent, weneed to have this License Agreement (the “Agreement”) executed. If there are any co-authors of
the Contribution (“Co-author”), you must obtain each Co-author’s consent to the terms of thisAgreement (including the rights granted to Owner) and obtain their signed written permission to
execute this Agreement on behalf of the Co-author(s), and you must provide the written
permission on request by the Owner or Wiley (where Wiley is not the Owner). If there are no such
Co-authors, terms related to Co-author(s) in this Agreement do not apply. If the Contribution is
not accepted for publication, or if the Contribution is subsequently rejected before publication, thisAgreement will be null and void. Publication cannot proceed without a signed copy of thisAgreement and payment of the applicable article publication charge in full (without
deduction of any taxes or fees).

For good and valuable consideration, including the publishing services rendered by Wiley and themutual covenants and agreements herein, the parties agree as follows:A.

TERMS OF USE

1. The Contribution will be made Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits use, distribution
and reproduction in any medium, provided that the Contribution is properly cited.
2. For an understanding of what is meant by the terms of the Creative Commons License, pleaserefer to Wiley’s Open Access Terms and Conditions (http://www.wileyauthors.com/OAA).
3. If any material contained in the Contribution is the output of Artificial Intelligence Generated
Content (AIGC) tools, (a) such tools do not fulfil the role of, nor can they be listed as, an author ofContribution, (b) Author or Co-author will describe its use, transparently and in detail, in themethods, acknowledgement, or equivalent section of the Contribution (provided, however, no suchdescription is needed for tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar, general editing), and(c) Author and each Co-author is responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by any
AIGC tool and for referencing any supporting work on which that information depends. The final
decision about whether use of an AIGC tool is appropriate or permissible lies with the Journal’s
editor or other party responsible for the publication’s editorial policy.
4. Notwithstanding acceptance, the Owner or Wiley is permitted to require changes to theContribution, including changes to the length of the Contribution. In addition, the Owner or Wileyis permitted to elect not to publish the Contribution, and/or permitted to retract, withdraw, or
publish a correction or other notice for a contribution accepted for publication, if for any reason, in
the Owner’s or Wiley’s reasonable judgment, such publication would be inconsistent with the Core
Practices and associated guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics(https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) or would result in legal liability, violation of Wiley’s
ethical guidelines, or violation of journal ethical practices.
5. Once a Contribution has been accepted for publication, an article publication charge (“APC”) isdue. The Author assumes responsibility for the APC, and no refunds will be issued. If Wiley decides
not to publish the Contribution, no APC will be charged and the Author is free to submit theContribution to any other journal from any other publisher.
B. LICENSE
Owner, Wiley (where Wiley is not the Owner), and users have non-exclusive rights to theContribution under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). “Contribution” means the article submitted by the
Author for publication in the Journal (including any embedded rich media) and all subsequentversions. The definition of Contribution does not extend to any supporting information submittedwith or referred to in the Contribution (“Supporting Information”). To the extent that any
Supporting Information is submitted to the Journal, the Owner is granted a perpetual, nonexclusive license to publish, republish, transmit, sell, distribute and otherwise use this Supporting
Information in whole or in part in electronic and print editions of the Journal and in derivative
works throughout the world, in all languages and in all media of expression now known or later
developed, and to license or permit others to do so.
C. RETAINED RIGHTS
The Author and each Co-author or, if applicable, the Author’s or Co-author’s employer, retains all
proprietary rights, such as copyright (subject to the above-stated Creative Commons license), andpatent rights in any process, procedure or article of manufacture described in the Contribution.
D. COPYRIGHT NOTICEThe Author, each Co-author, and the company/institution agree that any and all copies of the Final
Published Version or any part thereof distributed or posted by them in print or electronic format aspermitted will include the notice of copyright as stipulated in the Journal and a full citation to the
Final Published Version of the Contribution in the Journal as published by Wiley.
E. CONTRIBUTIONS OWNED BY EMPLOYER
If the Contribution was written by the Author in the course of the Author’s employment as a"work-made-for-hire", and the employer owns the copyright in the Contribution, the employer

company/institution agrees to the terms of use set forth in paragraph A above and must execute
this Agreement (in addition to the Author) in the space provided below.
F. AUTHOR’S REPRESENTATIONSThe Author represents that: (i) if the Contribution has multiple authors, the Author has informed
each Co-author of the terms of this Agreement (including the grant of rights to Owner inparagraph B above), has obtained their signed written permission to execute this Agreement on
their behalf, and will provide such written permission on request by the Owner; (ii) the Author andeach Co-author have the full power, authority and capability to enter into this Agreement, to grant
the rights and license granted herein and to perform all obligations hereunder; (iii) neither the
Author nor any Co-author has granted exclusive rights to, or transferred their copyright in, any
version of the Contribution to any third party; (iv) the Contribution is the Author’s and all Coauthor’s original work, all individuals identified as authors actually contributed to the Contribution,
and all individuals who contributed are included; (v) the Contribution is submitted only to this
Journal and has not been published before, has not been included in another manuscript, and is
not currently under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere; (vi) if excerpts from
copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, the Author shall obtain written permission
from the copyright owners for all uses as set forth in the standard permissions form and the
Journal’s Author Guidelines, and show credit to the sources in the Contribution; (vii) theContribution and any submitted Supporting Information contain no libelous or unlawfulstatements, do not infringe upon the rights (including without limitation the copyright, patent or
trademark rights) or the privacy of others, do not breach any confidentiality obligation, do not
violate a contract or any law, do not contain material or instructions that might cause harm or
injury, and only utilize data that has been obtained in accordance with applicable legal
requirements and Journal policies; (viii) there are no conflicts of interest relating to theContribution, except as disclosed; and (ix) if the Author or any Co-author is a resident of either
Iran, Syria, Cuba, Crimea, North Korea, Donetsk or Luhansk, the Contribution has been preparedin the relevant resident’s personal capacity during the course of their teaching or research work, inother words not as an official representative or otherwise on behalf of their relevant government
or institution.
The Author represents that the following information will be clearly identified in the Contribution:(1) all financial and material support for the research and work; (2) any financial interests the
Author or each Co-author may have in companies or other entities that have an interest in theinformation in the Contribution or any submitted Supporting Information (e.g., grants, advisoryboards, employment, consultancies, contracts, honoraria, royalties, expert testimony,partnerships, or stock ownership); and (3) indication of no such financial interests if appropriate.
G. INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
If the copyright of the Contribution is infringed, the Author and each Co-author (1) agrees that the
Owner may (without any obligation) take such steps as it considers necessary to deal with thematter; (2) will co-operate fully with the Owner in any infringement proceedings; and (3) agrees
to execute any documents and perform any acts reasonably required by the Owner for such
purposes.
H. USE OF INFORMATIONThe Author and each Co-author acknowledge that, during the term of this Agreement andthereafter, the Owner (and Wiley where Wiley is not the Owner) may process the Author’s and Coauthor’s personal data, including storing or transferring data outside of the country of the Author’s
and Co-author’s residence and sharing data with service providers, in order to process transactions
related to this Agreement and to communicate with the Author and each Co-author, and that
Owner (and Wiley where Wiley is not the Owner) has a lawful basis in processing the Author's andeach Co-author’s personal data. By entering into this Agreement, the Author and each Co-author
agree to the processing of the Author’s and each Co-author’s personal data.
Wiley shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes and regulations relating to data protection andprivacy and shall process such personal data in accordance with Wiley’s Privacy Policy located at:https://www.wiley.com/en-us/privacy.

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and complete understanding of the parties andsupersedes all other agreements relating to the Contribution. By signing this Agreement, I agree
to this Agreement and, where execution and delivery of the Agreement is electronic, I agree tosuch electronic execution and delivery, and that an electronic signature will be given the samelegal force as a handwritten signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number ofcounterparts, each of which when executed and delivered constitutes a duplicate original, and all
the counterparts together constitutes the Agreement.
In cases where multiple options apply, one Author can sign on behalf of Co-Authors in the same
category. For articles with Authors employed by multiple government agencies, companies, ororganizations, one signature is needed per agency/company/organization – uploading a separate
file for each group is acceptable. Where there is a government-employed Author and a nongovernment employed Author, each such Author must sign.
If your status as a government or non-governmental/intergovernmental organization employee
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SIGN HERE. YOU MUST SELECT ALL APPLICABLE OPTIONS BY CHECKING THE BOX(ES)BELOW. NOTE WHERE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR SIGNATURES MAY BE REQUIRED.
Author's signature:__________________________________________________________________________
Date: _________________________YOU MUST MAKE AT LEAST ONE SELECTION:

Author-owned work
Where an Author owns the copyright in the Contribution, the Author would select this option. In
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Select this option:

U.S. Government work
A Contribution prepared by a U.S. federal government employee as part of the employee's official
duties, or which is an official U.S. government publication, is called a "U.S. government work", andis in the public domain and therefore there is no copyright to transfer under U.S. law, though there
would be copyright transferred under the law of other jurisdictions. If the Contribution was notprepared as part of the employee's duties, it is not a U.S. government work.
If at least one author is not a U.S. government employee, the Contribution is not a U.S.
government work. A signature is still needed on behalf of U.S. government employees.
NOTE: If you are employed by any of the entities with non-standard terms as listed at
http://www.wileyauthors.com/licensingFAQ, download a copy of the appropriate agreement orstatement and upload the form to the Wiley Author Services Dashboard. Do not sign thisagreement. Employees of all other agencies/departments can select this option.
Select this option:

U.K. Government work (Crown Copyright)
The rights in a Contribution prepared by an employee of a UK government department, agency orother Crown body as part of his/her/their official duties, or which is an official government
publication, belong to the Crown and must be made available under the terms of the Open
Government Licence. Authors must ensure they comply with departmental regulations, and bysigning this form they are asserting that they have the appropriate authorisation to publish.
If at least one author is not a U.K. government employee, Crown Copyright only applies to thoseauthors that are U.K. government employees and the copyright subsisting by their Contribution to
the work.
Select this option:
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Date: _________________________

Company/institution-owned work (made for hire in the course of employment)
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Select this option:
Name of Company/Institution:__________________________________________________________________________
Authorized Signature of Employer:__________________________________________________________________________
Date: _________________________

Other ownership (including other Governments, Intergovernmental
Organizations (IGOs), and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs))
If you are employed by any of the entities with non-standard terms listed at
http://www.wileyauthors.com/licensingFAQ, download a copy of the appropriate agreement orstatement and upload the form to the Wiley Author Services Dashboard. Do not sign thisagreement.
Employees of all other governments/organizations can select this option.

Select this option:
Name of Government/Organization:__________________________________________________________________________