Director
Prof  Michael Kelly

Centre Manager
Liz Ashurst

Academic Co-ordinators
John Canning
Alison Dickens 
Vicky Wright

Centre Secretary
Sue Nash/Jane Copeland	Subject Centre for Languages, 
Linguistics and Area Studies
Modern Languages 
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

tel: 023 80 593970
fax: 023 80 594815 
email:  llas@soton.ac.uk
internet: http://www.llas.ac.uk	

Materials Development Agreement

THIS AGREEMENT is made the [day] day of [month], [year]

BETWEEN:

(1)	[name], [Department], [institution, (hereafter the Author)
and 
(2)	the University of Southampton as represented by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (hereafter the Subject Centre)

IT IS AGREED as follows:

Definitions
The following terms shall have the following meanings:

‘Materials'	Teaching materials entitled, [title] which is to be added to the Subject Centre’s Materials Bank;

'Rights'	the non-exclusive right by way of licence to disseminate the Materials in all formats including written, electronic and all multimedia formats throughout the Territory;

'Territory'	The world.

Recitals
The Author has agreed to materials to the Subject Centre and to grant to the Subject Centre the Rights therein subject to the following terms and conditions.

Grant of Rights
The Author grants to the Subject Centre the Rights.

•	Permissions
to permit users of the Materials Bank to copy the Materials freely for non-commercial personal or educational use providing the Author is acknowledged as such.

Author's warranties and indemnity
The Author warrants that:
•	none of the Article(s) as submitted by the Author to the Subject Centre infringes or will infringe the copyright or any other rights of any person.

Subject Centre's obligations
The Subject Centre agrees with the Author:
•	Publishing requirements
to publish the Materials in electronic format in the Subject Centre’s Materials Bank.

•	Copyright protection 
to ensure that all copies of the Materials in whatever format as published bear the symbol © accompanied by '(name of Author)' and '(year of first publication)’ (where '(year of first publication)' represents the year of the first publication of the Materials in the Materials Bank) placed in such a manner and location as to give reasonable notice of claim of copyright in the Materials.

General 
•	Proper law and jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by English law in every particular including formation and interpretation and shall be deemed to have been made in England and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

•	No modification
This Agreement may not be modified except by an instrument in writing signed by both the parties or their duly authorised representatives.

SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF
[name]

SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF 
THE SUBJECT CENTRE: