@ Revision of regulation of Corp. Japan Society of Refrigeration
and Air conditioning Engineers for Authorfs Copyright
                                

Background of revision

To cope with recent movement for authorfs copyright, we have revised the
regulations with the following items as the objective. Although this revision
basically means authorfs copyright about articles and the rest is transferred
to this society, this regulation contains protection of the authorfs copyright
as well. This regulation is an alternative of gthe regulation of corp. Japan Society
of Refrigeration and Air conditioning Engineers for authorfs copyrighth that was
established in the ordinary general meeting on May 10th of 1979 (Showa 54 year).
In addition, the reason why the above regulation was established in the ordinary
general meeting was that the regulation must swear back to the past and therefore
approval of collective opinion from members was necessary.
1. To clarify this societyfs approach for the copyright.
2. To cope with computerized documentation such as publications in home page,
download service, electronic journal and others.
3. To improve service to members and social society.


Regulation of Corp. Japan Society of Refrigeration
and Air conditioning Engineers for Authorfs Copyright

Established in the ordinary general meeting on January 20th of 2006


(Object)
Article 1. This regulation deals with management of authorfs copyright about
articles and the rest in publication matters and in the home page of this society.

(Definition)
Article 2. Copyrighted work of the articles and the rest published and disclosed
in the home page of this society, means publication matters (including electronic
media) by this society, and research papers, commentary articles, software of
programs disclosed in the home page of this society and also includes collected
papers of annual meetings, lecture meetings, workshops, seminars and
international conferences, sponsored or co-sponsored by this society. To be more
precise, they include the following items.


1. Printed books such as academic books and textbooks printed by this society.
2. Research papers printed in the transactions of this society.
3. Research papers and commentary articles printed in the academic journal hReitohof this society
4. Collected papers of annual meetings, academic conferences and product-exchanging meetings of this society
5. Collected papers of lecture meetings, seminars and the rest of this society
6. Written document in the home page of this society
7. Copyrighted work distributed electronically by this society.
8. e-mail newsletters of this society
9. Software of programs published by this society.


2.Copyright means all the rights defined by the copyright law (Revised on 21st
december of Heisei 16(2004) such as in article 21iright of reproductionj,in
article 22 (right of showing and playing), in article 22(right of showing), in
article 23(right of public transmission), in article 24(right of orality), in
article 25 (right of exhibition), in article 26(right of distribution), in article
26-2(dominion), in article 26-3(right of lending), in article 27(right of
translation), in article 28(right of original author for secondary utilization
of copyrighted works) of the copyright law.

(Attribution of copyright)
Article 3. Copyright of the articles and the rest published by this society and
disclosed in the home page of this society is attribute to this society.
2. Attribution of copyright of articles and the rest published and disclosed in
home pages by co-hosted with another academic society, is worked toward a
negotiated agreement, on a case-by-case basis
3. Start of attribution of copyright to this society is a day when transfer of
a copyright is completed as defined in the article 4.
4. In case that articles and the rest contributed to this society are not decided
to appear in the publication of this society, the copyright of the
aforementioned articles and the rest are returned to authors as a result of
no effect of the copy right transfer of publications of the articles and the rest.
5. In case that copyright transfer of articles and the rest is not possible,
authors should let the society know this fact. The copyright committee of this
society will discuss to decide its management.

(Transfer of copyright)
Article 4. When contributing copyrighted works to publication or home page of
this society, authors (in case of collaboration with another authors, all the
authors) should offer certificate of transfer with signatures or seals to this
society.

(Permission of utilization to third parties)
Article 5. In case there are applications of permission of utilization for
copyrighted works from third parties to this society, this society will discuss
them and can give permission of utilization for the applications that this society concludes appropriate.
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2. Due to the preceding permission, if there is payment as counter value from third parties, it will be brought over to the account of this society.

(Right of authors)
Article 6. In case authors will utilize works that they have already transferred
their copyright to this society, they should report it to this society in
advance in a written form and after that they can utilize the works, clearly
writing their sources of this society.
2.In case that authors will put together already contributed papers in lecture
meetings of this society in order to increase percentage completion and
contribute it to the transactions and the rest of this society, it is not
necessarily to inform this society in advance in a written form or to write
clearly their source of this society for the utilized papers.
3.In case that authors will file for a return of the copyright that they once
transferred to this society, this society will discuss it and if the application
is judged reasonable, the copyright will be returned to the authors. However,
the authors must permit this society for its copyright without charge.
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4.In case of transferring copyright of papers in the previous article to third
parties such as another society, it is conditional on that the transferred
third parties such as another society permit this societyfs utilization of
the copyright without charge.
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5. Utilization permission in the article 3 and 4 means utilization of rights
regulated in the copyright law. However, the range of copyright will be
discussed and decided upon contract among this society, authors and the third
parties such as another societies.

(Violation of copyright and handling of disputes)
Article 7. In case that there is a violation of copyright by third parties against
the works of which this society has copyright, this society will seek the settlement of it.
2.Authors are responsible for the content of works such as articles contributed to this society, and the aforesaid authors will seek the settlement of violation of copyright, defamation and other conflicts against third parties.
(Copyright committee)
Article 8. The copyright committee will perform discussion of copyright on the article 3,5 and 6, to make a decision.
2.Chairpersons or committee persons from committee of transaction editing, committee of journal editing, committee of publishing, committee of public information will organize the copyright committee and a chairperson of the copyright committee will be decided by the board chairman through recommendation among mutual election of committee persons.

(Vending date)
Article 9. This regulation becomes effective on the date of January 20th of 2006.

(Internal regulations)
Article 10. Details are established in the internal regulations of Corp. Japan Society of Refrigeration and Air conditioning Engineers for Authorfs Copyright.


In addition, the following regulations are revised accompanied by this revision.
1. gInternal regulations of Corp. Japan Society of Refrigeration and Air conditioning Engineers for authorfs copyrighth
2. gManagement regulation of publishingh
3. gOutline of contribution manuscript for transactions of Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineersh

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