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Copyright Statement
The following statement will appear on the copyright page of the Publication volume:
ABLE holds copyright of the compilation (i.e., of all articles compiled together in a volume). If
the exercise that you presented at the ABLE workshop/conference was created while you were
employed by your institution, then typically, your institution owns copyright of the laboratory
exercise. Copyright law in the U.S. states that “copyright in the work of authorship immediately
becomes the property of the author[s] who created it… In the case of works for hire, the employer
and not the employee is prescriptively the author… A work for hire [is] … a work prepared by an
employee within the scope of his/her employment.
The above statement indicates that a request by an individual to use an exercise/chapter for a “for
profit” use must be made directly to the author(s). ABLE’s only condition in this regard is that
proper credit to the ABLE Publication must be included in the user’s collected work for each use.