What if I am a U.S. government employee who is not allowed to transfer copyright?
If you and all your co-authors are United States federal employees who have written your manuscript within the scope of your official duties, then Annual Reviews does not seek copyright. This is because domestic copyright protection is not available for any work of the United States Government. Therefore, your article will appear with the following footnote to the chapter title: “This paper was authored by employees of the United States Government as part of their official duties and is therefore not subject to copyright.” If you are a U.S. federal employee who wrote the manuscript outside the scope of your employment, then you own the copyright in the work despite your federal employee status. In this event, you will be asked to complete the Annual Reviews Copyright Transfer Agreement. If any of the work’s co-authors is not a U.S. federal employee, then the work is not copyright exempt and all authors will be asked to complete the non-federal-employee section of the Annual Reviews Cop
