Assignment of Copyright

In consideration of being appointed to a Supply Chain Council (SCC) committee or task force and of being granted access to this forum, each participant in the forum hereby forever and irrevocably assigns to SCC all right, title and interest in and to the content he or she is creating and/or editing or has already created and/or edited for SCC ("the Work"), including without limitation all Work in connection with any of SCC’s operations reference models. It is each participant’s intent that the Work become the property of SCC and that SCC own all intellectual property rights, including without limitation the copyright, in and to such Work. SCC shall have the right to obtain and hold in its name rights of copyright, copyright registrations and any similar protection that may be available in the Work. Each participant agrees to execute any further transfers, assignments or other documents, as may be requested by SCC or its designees from time to time, which may be necessary to facilitate the transfer of copyright in the Work to SCC.

Each participant acknowledges and agrees that this Assignment is a transfer to SCC of full ownership in and to the Work, including without limitation all rights to edit, reproduce, distribute, transmit and display the Work, and the right to create derivative works therefrom, via any means, known or unknown, currently existing or developed or discovered in the future.

Each participant warrants that he or she is the sole owner and creator of the portions of the Work created by him or her and of such rights in and to the Work, that such portions of the Work are original and not in the public domain, that such portions of the Work do not violate or infringe upon any existing copyright or other intellectual property right, that he or she has not previously assigned to another any rights assigned herein, and that he or she has full power to make this Assignment.