UC INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH REPOSITORY DEPOSIT LICENCE

In order for the UC Institutional Research Repository (ResearchSpace@canterbury.ac.nz)
to store, copy, translate and distribute material deposited in it, your agreement to the
following terms is necessary. Please take a moment to read the terms of this deposit licence.

Your rights
Rights granted to the UC Institutional Research Repository through this agreement are non-exclusive.
You are free to publish the work in its present or future version(s) elsewhere and no ownership
is assumed by the repository when storing an e-print.

The UC Institutional Research Repository will not make any alteration, other than as allowed by this
licence, to your work.

Depositing with the UC Institutional Research Repository
By agreeing to this licence, you (the author(s), copyright owner or assignee), grant a non-exclusive
licence to the UC Institutional Research Repository that authorises the following:

1. that you are the author, copyright holder or assignee and have authority to make this
   agreement, and give the UC Institutional Research Repository the right to publish the work in a repository.
2. that the work is original and does not, to the best of your knowledge,
   infringe upon anyone?s copyright.
3. that, if the work contains material for which you do not hold copyright, you represent that
   you have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner to grant UC Institutional
   Research Repository the rights required by this licence, and that such third-party owned material is clearly
   identified and acknowledged within the text of the work.
4. that, if the work is based on material that has been supported or sponsored by an agency other than
   the University of Canterbury, you represent that you have fulfilled any right of review or other
   obligations required by such contract or agreement.

Permissions given to the repository
The UC Institutional Research Repository shall distribute electronic copies of the work for
the lifetime of the repository and translate it as necessary to any medium or format to ensure it can be read
by computer systems in the future.

Withdrawing your work
You may request that the work is removed at any point in the future. Equally, the UC Institutional Research Repository
reserves the right to remove the work for any professional, administrative or legal reason.
A metadata record indicating the work was stored in the repository will remain visible in perpetuity.

Disclaimer
While every care will be taken to preserve the e-print, the UC Institutional Research Repository
is not liable for loss or damage to the digital object or other data while it is stored within the repository.