Common use of Publisher License Clause in Contracts

Publisher License. 1. Upon signing of this Agreement, the Author grants to the Publisher the non-exclusive unlimited license to the Work for the multiple release and distribution of all subsequent editions of the entire Work or any part thereof in all known fields of use and by any technique, in particular: a) recording and multiplying the Work with any technique (including print and electronic editions) at all known carriers (including digital, electronic and paper) and in all digital systems (especially the Internet); b) loading into computer memory and into computer memory, distributing and marketing the Work and its copies; c) public performance, public replay, staging, exhibition, display, screening, lending for use and/or renting the Work and its copies; d) making available, marketing and distributing the Work and its copies through digital networks, especially the Internet, including promoting and advertising the Work, journal and/or the Publisher; e) including the Work into a collective work; f) making the Work available in electronic form in such a way that everyone can access it at a place and time chosen by them, in particular via the Internet; g) sending metadata of the Work and the Work to commercial and non-commercial databases indexing journals. 2. Pursuant to this Agreement the Author grants the Publisher non-exclusive license to exercise derivative copyright to the Work, to the extent specified in this Agreement. 3. The Publisher may send the Work and metadata of the Work to commercial and non-commercial journal indexing databases and catalogs. 4. The licenses referred to in this Agreement shall not be limited by quantity, time, language or territory. 5. Within the scope of the license, the Author may license and sub-license the Work to the extent indicated in § 2, including Creative Commons licenses in line with Creative Commons guidelines, especially Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) or its latest version or a different language version.