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EJCK will not own the copyrights to any works it publishes. Instead, it will obtain permission to publish and distribute the work from its authors who will retain copyright. EJCK will also obtain permission to grant certain rights to its readers and to reserve certain rights from the readers which will be retained by EJCK and the authors. In other words, of all the rights held by the creators of the work, the creators will grant a sub-set to EJCK, and EJCK will grant a further sub-set to the readers.

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This certification and the agreement below applies to all original work submitted by me to EJCK regardless of the media or form of the work including without limitation print, electronic documents, video, audio, computer code, and haptic simulations.

I give permission to the Electronic Journal of Computational Kinematics to use my copyrighted work as follows:

Reproduction: EJCK may post my paper on its web site and identical mirror sites which may be established in the future. EJCK will allow all readers of the site to read, download, and print copies of the paper for their own use in research and education. Readers of EJCK will not be allowed to repost papers originating in EJCK. I also grant EJCK, but not readers of the www site, permission to re-publish the work in a collection of works by all means and media now known or hereafter discovered, including without limitation, print, microform, and CD-rom.

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Public Display: EJCK may display and transmit the work on its web site.

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This paper is published in The Electronic Journal of Computational 
Kinematics.

These exceptions shall not restrict any of the rights granted to EJCK above.

I understand that I may not submit this paper to another journal for review and/or publication. I may re-use material from this paper in other papers or works that I create, but no more than 50% of the material in this paper may be reproduced in any single work, and such items that are reproduced must bear attribution as follows: "Used with permission of EJCK, the Electronic Journal of Computational Kinematics". This agreement constitutes permission for use as described above.

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