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Sample
gift agreement
Personal
papers (manuscript collections) are transferred to MIT by means
of a gift
agreement. The function of the document is to clarify the property,
copyright, disposition, and access rights to the collection. As the standard agreement reads:
- Property
and copyrights are transferred to MIT. This agreement does not
affect the copyrights to published works. Transferring the copyrights
enables MIT to grant researchers permission to quote from the
collection.
- Granting
disposition rights to MIT allows us to remove from the collection
material which we believe should not be permanently retained.
We would dispose of such material in accordance with your wishes;
it can be returned to you, offered to another repository,
or destroyed.
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This agreement allows us to administer access to the collection
with a minimum impact on your time.
- The
appendix referred to in the gift agreement is the brief preliminary
inventory or description of the collection prepared by our staff.
An additional appendix is prepared for each group of papers you
give to the Archives and becomes a part of the legal agreement.
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