State Bar of Wisconsin

Newsletter Materials Submission Policy

Authors: Please read before submitting materials.

The State Bar of Wisconsin gratefully acknowledges the volunteer contribution of your time and expertise. In an attempt to balance the State Bar’s educational mission with the need to protect the rights of its authors, the following policy covers articles and related material submitted for publication in State Bar section, division, and committee newsletters or other print and electronic publications.*

You retain ownership of the copyright to the materials you submit for publication, but in submitting those materials, you give the State Bar a perpetual, limited license to use them in the following manner:

1. To reproduce the materials and distribute the reproductions in any media in publications and at seminars and other educational programs sponsored by the State Bar, as well as to libraries, schools, nonprofit educational organizations, and other similar nonprofit entities in furtherance of the State Bar’s educational mission.
2. To use your name, biographical information, and likeness in connection with the State Bar’s use of the materials in any media, including for the purpose of publicity and promotion related to the State Bar’s educational mission.
3. To include the materials in compilations published in any media by the State Bar.
4. To allow others to reproduce the materials in any media and distribute the reproductions in publications and at seminars and other educational programs sponsored by nonprofit organizations.
5. In all reproductions of the materials, users will be required to include the following attribution language: “Reprinted with the permission of the State Bar of Wisconsin and [author’s name].”
6. Although the State Bar may charge for the reproductions of your materials, it will not allow others to make commercial use of your materials without your permission.

The State Bar expects its members to respect the proprietary rights of others, just as each of you expect your own rights to be respected. Accordingly, in submitting materials to the State Bar, you agree that you are the original and sole author of the materials, except for those portions that are in the public domain, are the works of others for which permission to use has been obtained, or are subject to fair use.

You also agree that you will inform the State Bar if your submitted material has been published elsewhere, or if it will be published elsewhere before the State Bar publishes it. Unless such prior publication is disclosed to the State Bar, you agree that you will not publish your material anywhere else until the State Bar has published it.

*This policy does not apply to State Bar CLE Seminar and Books speakers and authors and Wisconsin Lawyer ­authors, who are under separate agreements.

3/31/08