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NON-EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
By signing and submitting this license, you (the author(s) or copyright owner) grant to John Cabot University (JCU) the nonexclusive right to reproduce, translate (as defined below), and/or distribute your submission (including the abstract) worldwide in print and electronic format and in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video.
You agree that JCU may, without changing the content, translate the submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation.
You also agree that JCU may keep more than one copy of this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation.
You represent that the submission is your original work, and that you have the right to grant the rights contained in this license. You also represent that your submission does not, to the best of your knowledge, infringe upon anyone's copyright.
If the submission contains material for which you do not hold copyright, you represent that you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner to grant JCU the rights required by this license, and that such third-party owned material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text or content of the submission.
IF THE SUBMISSION IS BASED UPON WORK THAT HAS BEEN SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED BY AN AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION OTHER THAN JCU, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE FULFILLED ANY RIGHT OF REVIEW OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS REQUIRED BY SUCH CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.
JCU will clearly identify your name(s) as the author(s) or owner(s) of the submission, and will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this license, to your submission.
Nevertheless, the author(s) has the right to revoke the distribution rights of JCU at any point, although JCU may still keep the citation information of the paper for the sake of completeness in the series even if the paper has been removed from the system.
These Terms of Use are subject to change by JCU at any time and without notice, other than posting the updated Terms of Use on the repository.
Where possible, authors should be uniquely identifiable, through identifiers which are persistent, non-proprietary, open and interoperable (e.g. through existing sustainable initiatives such as ORCID author identifiers).