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How To Submit An Article To Spiritual Endeavors
Spiritual Endeavors exists because of individuals like you.
Individuals willing to share their personal truths, insights,
experiences, thoughts, philosophies, or techniques with others in hope
of being able to help the expansion of awareness and consciousness for
the advancement of humanity. Thank you!
Our part in the scheme
of things is helping you get exposure for your ideas and
contributions... getting the word out, so to speak. When we started
doing that in 1995 it was a relatively simple job - Someone would send
us an article and we would review it and probably post it. These days it
has become a bit more encumbered. Spirituality has become a business for
some and we have had to take precautions to protect ourselves from the
not so spiritual element among us.
Towards that end we have been
advised that we need to have written permission from someone before
posting or publishing their material on our website. This is usually
accomplished by the signing of what is called a non-exclusive license to
publish. We have taken a multi page standard non-exclusive licensing
contract and trimmed it down to a few simple, easy to understand
agreements (below) that must be (electronically) signed by an author
when submitting material to Spiritual Endeavors. In order to simplify,
this only has to happen once - no matter how many articles an author may
submit and no matter how many articles from an author we publish.
What does this mean to you, the author(s)?
First, it means that you, the author(s), are not giving away your material - you are retaining all ownership and all copyright rights afforded to you by national and international laws. It is still your material. You still own it. It is in every way yours to do with what you will, with whomever you wish to.
Second, It means that although you are granting
(licensing) Spiritual Endeavors the privilege to post (or publish) your
material on their website or to use in newsletters, etc., you are doing
so in a manner that you retain all of your rights and ownership of the
material, and the use granted to Spiritual Endeavors in no way limits
your ability to submit and/or publish your material anywhere else you
like.
Third, You are limiting
Spiritual Endeavors to specific conditions as to how we may use your
material.
Spiritual Endeavors has removed and simplified as much
legalese language as possible so that what is being agreed to is
straightforward and easy to understand.
WHAT SPIRITUAL ENDEAVORS IS AGREEING TO
In short, the above means that you are not locked into an exclusive
agreement of any kind. You are allowing Spiritual Endeavors, for as long as the
copyright applies, to use your material, and this in no way limits your right to publish the material
anywhere else, at any time, even at the same time.
WHAT YOU ARE AGREEING TO
In short, you are stating that you have the authority to make this
agreement... and that the material does not infringe on an existing copyright...
and that we are not responsible if those two statements are not true. You
understand that Spiritual Endeavors does not have to consult with or notify you
in order to alter or even close website. Any changes to the agreements must be
made in writing. And you only have to sign these agreements once, no matter how
many times you submit material
Okay... That covers that. Now we need to
get some information from you so we can match up the material you are going to
submit with the agreements above.
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