Please note that all seminar and workshop papers will be placed on this web site so that other Berks participants have access to them. The papers will be password-protected, but the password will be printed in the conference program which will appear on line. In other words, casual web surfers will not be able to access your paper, but it will be widely available to scholars.

By sending us the paper for the web site, you represent that you own the copyright to all material contained in it, except that covered under the fair use exception. See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html if you are unfamiliar with the doctrine of fair use, which allows among other things “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.”

DO NOT include illustrations unless you hold the copyright or have permission to reproduce them. You may, however, include links to illustrations on the Web, including on your own web site. If you do include illustrations, we cannot post the paper unless you specifically tell us in your e-mail that you hold the copyrights, or list the copyright holder(s) and state that they have granted permission.

Send your paper as a Word document as an e-mail attachment to berks@umn.edu by April 15, 2008. Please help us get the e-mail to the right person by putting “Seminar Paper—[Your Name]” or “Workshop Paper—[Your Name]”in the subject line.

If you are unable to send the paper as a Word document, send it as a .rtf (Rich Text Format) document. Most word processors will allow you to export it in this format. These are the only two formats that we can support.

Please put a copyright statement at the beginning of the paper: © [Your name] 2008. If you can’t do a copyright symbol on your keyboard, write out the word “copyright.” If you wish to specify any further restrictions (for example, “Do not quote without permission”) please do so, but be aware that this may not be legally binding.

See http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ if you want further information on copyright in the U.S. In case of any violation of your rights as copyright holder, it would be up to you and not the Berkshire Conference to take any action.