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Article Copyright Statement

Title of the Article: _______________________________________________________________

Copyright-owner: ________________________________________________________________

Passport or ID Number: ___________________________________________________________

Affiliation: _____________________________________________________________________

Telephone: _____________________________________________________________________

E-mail: ________________________________________________________________________

Address (Post Code): _____________________________________________________________

Whereas the Article above (including the main body, abstract, figures, tables, references, supplements, and all other parts, hereinafter referred to as the Article) of Copyright-owner is to be published by the Higher Education Press Limited Company (hereinafter referred to as the Publisher) in Landscape Architecture Frontiers (hereinafter referred to as the Journal), the following have been stated by the Copyright-owner:

1. The Copyright-owner agrees to exclusively license the copying rights, distribution rights, information network dissemination rights, performance rights, translation rights, compilation rights, and adaptation rights of the Article’s copyright to the Publisher worldwide. The Publisher has the right to use the Article in the following ways, including but not limited to:

(1) Copy, publish, and disseminate the Article in various known or possible future forms, formats, and media (including but not limited to paper, CD, disk, network, etc.).

(2) Translate, adapt, compile, and publish the Article and use the pictures, diagrams, abstracts, supplementary materials, or any part of the Article to derive other works.

(3) Perform the dissemination of the Article in various forms of expression (including but not limited to oral and written).

(4) The Publisher has the right to use the names and professional credits of author(s) in connection with the publication of the Article and/or Journal and in any material promoting and marketing the Article and/or Journal.

(5) License all or part of the above rights to third parties.

2. The Copyright-owner warrants that the Article is its original work and that the Article infringes no copyrights or legal rights of any other authors. If the Article is of joint authorship, the Copyright-owner shall, as agent of all the Copyright-owners, have the rights to negotiate and sign the Statement with the Publisher by exercise of any relevant rights with respect to the Article on behalf of all the Copyright-owners. The performance of the contractual obligations by the Publisher to Copyright-owner shall be deemed as having performed the contractual obligations to all the Copyright-owners, whereby the Publisher shall be exempt from disputes with any other Copyright-owners of the Article.

3. To tally the requirements related to the publication and the literature index systems, the Copyright-owner authorizes the Publisher to make necessary translations, supplements, and modifications to the title, abstract, keywords, main body, references, and captions to the graphics of the Article.

4. The Copyright-owner warrants that the Article has not been published previously anywhere in any language or form and that they shall not publish or post the final English and Chinese full text version of the Article produced by the Publisher in any language and form and on any other printed, Internet, or electronic media in the future.

5. Prior versions of the Article published on non-commercial pre-print servers like arXiv.org can remain on these servers and/or can be updated with the Copyright-owner’s accepted version. He/she may self-archive the created version of his/her Article on his/her own website and/or institutional repository. He/she may also deposit this version on his/her funder’s or funder’s designated repository at the funder’s request or as a result of a legal obligation, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after official publication. The final published version (in pdf or html/xml format) cannot be used for these purposes. In all these cases, an acknowledgment is required for the final publication, and a link of the Publisher’s website should be inserted to the published article.

6. The Copyright-owner retains the right to include the Article in his/her further dissertations, postdoctoral qualifications, or personal collections and should provide acknowledgments to the original source of publication.

7. This Statement shall be effective as of the date of its signature. The authorization period is the copyright protection period of the article. There is no authorization fee. If the agreement submitted by the Copyright-owner is scanned or a photocopy, it shall be deemed that the scanned/copy has the same legal effect as the original.

Copyright-owner (signature): _____________________

Date: _______________________________________