Copyright

All material produced by members on behalf of an RSC Board or Committee and the proceedings of any RSC Board or Committee meeting and any published version thereof belong to the Royal Society of Chemistry. The RSC gains copyright for this material by virtue of the Copyright Statement included in the Terms of Reference of each RSC Board and Committee. 

If material is produced on behalf of an RSC Board or Committee by people not on the RSC Board or Committee, then the Board or Committee will need to get explicit agreements from the author using the standard recommended form of wording. RSC Board and Committee members, and any other authors, must ensure that their material does not infringe the copyright of others.

The correct form of copyright statement that should be added to each document that is RSC copyright is: 

© The Royal Society of Chemistry YEAR or Copyright, The Royal Society of Chemistry YEAR (where YEAR is the current year).