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1. The parties involved

Author of work (hereon Authors)

Publisher: Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥/Open Science Centre (hereon OSC)

2. Work

Title of work (hereon work)

3. Purpose of permission

The author renders the OSC the right to make the work available to the general public for browsing, copying and printing through an open information network. 

4. Obligations and rights of the author

The author is responsible for ensuring that the electronic version of the work submitted to the OSC is identical in content to the thesis submitted to the relevant faculty of the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥. The author is solely responsible for the content of the work and their rights to it. The author affirms that they have the necessary rights to the images, any additional materials, and articles attached to the work for making them available through this online publishing permission. The author is liable for any claims made by third parties.

5. Obligations of the OSC

The OSC will see that the work is appropriately registered in a library catalogue or catalogues and offers access to the publication itself. The OSC will guarantee the online accessibility of the work and will provide the publication service with a note pertaining to the use of material covered by copyright. For preserving the work, the OSC will save the original version of the work to its archive server. If the original version has not been rendered, the OSC will save a copy of the edited document to the archive server for electronic publishing. 

6. Compensation

The OSC does not provide compensation to the author for the use of the work. The two parties will not demand payment or compensation for the online use of the publication nor for making paper printouts of the work for private use.

7. Copyright

The copyright of the work is reserved by the author. The OSC holds the right to change or copy the work in order to guarantee its long-term preservation. The OSC holds the right to distribute the work in an electronic form through its electronic publishing service for as long as this permission is in effect.

8. Annulling or cancelling the permission

The OSC may annull the permission immediately if the author has demonstrably given misleading or erroneous information in relation to clause 4. Annulling the agreement will not exempt the author from responsibility or from potential liability for damages. 

The author may demand the cancellation of the permission writing, in which case the agreement will be canceled one month after rendering the written demand. After the cancellation of the agreement the OSC holds no right to maintain the publication on an open information network for public access, but the OSC may keep an electronic archive copy of the work. The archive copies are accessible in the same manner as other electronic deposit copies at depository libraries on machines reserved for this purpose. 

If the annulment of the permission is due to breach of contract by the author, the author is liable to indemnify all expenses and direct damage caused to the OSC by the annulment of the agreement. 

Both parties hold the right to annul the permission if meeting its conditions becomes impossible due to force majeure. Force majeure entails such unusual and relevant events occurring after making the agreement and preventing the fulfilment of the permission which could not be foreseen by the parties when making the agreement and which are independent of both parties and the preventive effects of which cannot be removed without additional expenses deemed inordinate or without loss of time deemed inordinate.

9. Resolution of disputes

Disputes resulting from interpretation of this permission are primarily resolved through negotiation. If a settlement cannot be reached in this manner, the dispute will be submitted to the District Court of Central Finland for resolution.

A copy of the publication permission will be sent to the doctoral candidate via email and stored in the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ archive.