Many participants at OpenCon will have the opportunity to speak or comment during the conference, so we ask all participants to sign a speaker release as part of registration.

***Retain your rights. Read all author/speaker agreements carefully***

I hereby grant the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) the right to record and distribute through audio recording, Web broadcast audio and/or online slide format my speech/comments and any of my supporting materials under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Granting this release in no way relinquishes my ownership of the material nor waives my right to continue to present or to publish this same speech and/or use portions thereof as I choose. Granting this release does not guarantee or assure that this program will be published by SPARC. No monies, compensation or royalties will accrue to speakers for this service.