Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, Inc.
Assignment of Copyright
2013 Annual Symposium
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The Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, Inc. (SPWLA) is pleased to accept your paper entitled (fill in
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for publication in the Annual Logging Symposium Transactions. Under the terms of the copyright law effective January 1,
1978, we are required to obtain copyright transfer from authors of each paper to allow us to continue our practice of
holding copyright for individual articles published in publications sponsored by SPWLA. This policy enables the Society
to include papers in the SPWLA Reprint Series, and certain other publications.
The Author is assumed to be the owner unless the work was done within the scope of the author's employment, in which
case the employer is the owner. Only one section of the form should be signed: one author may sign on behalf of all coauthors. No manuscript will be published in the Transactions unless the copyright transfer form is signed and
returned to the SPWLA business office at 8866 Gulf Freeway, Suite 320, Houston, TX 77017. Fax: 713 947-7181.
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