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All requests for permission to reproduce material first published in MHRA books and journals should be directed to:

rights@mhra.org.uk

Please give specific details of the proposed new publication and the permission you require, including: media (print/electronic); print run; selling price; market; language.

Information for Authors

It is our practice, together with most other serials and journals publishers, to ask you to assign to the MHRA the copyright of Contributions accepted for publication in our journals. The reasons for this are as follows:

(i) ownership of copyright by the publisher tends to ensure maximum international protection against infringement, libel or plagiarism

(ii) it enables the MHRA to deal efficiently with requests from third parties to reproduce or reprint a Contribution, or part of it, and in accordance with a general policy which is sensitive both to any relevant changes in international copyright law and to the general desirability of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge.

In assigning your copyright you are not forfeiting your proprietary rights, including patent rights. Nothing in the Agreement you sign shall restrict your rights as the Author(s) to revise, adapt, prepare derivative works, present orally or otherwise make use of the contents of the Contribution, provided that these do not conflict with the MHRA's financial interests. You may do this after obtaining our permission. The MHRA is a charity which has the encouragement and dissemination of scholarship as its object, and permission to use the contents of your work elsewhere will not normally be withheld provided that the MHRA journal is acknowledged as the original source with a full bibliographical reference.

Further details of our policy, together with a copyright assignment form, are available here.

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