Form 1 NEA Acknowledgement of Translation Form

National Endowment for the Arts

Translation Fellowship – Acknowledgment of Rights-holder

Rights-holder: _______________________________________

Rights-holder’s Country of Origin: _______________________________________

Title of Work to be Translated (the “Work”): _______________________________________

Translator: _______________________________________

I, _______________________________________, acting as the Rights-holder or as an authorized representative of the Rights-holder, and warranting that I have the capacity to act as such, do acknowledge, understand, and affirm the following:

• The Translator is seeking funds in the form of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (“NEA”) to create an English-language translation of the Work (the “Translation”).

• The NEA is an agency of the United States Government.

• The terms of the NEA grant do not authorize or consent to the Translator publishing the Translation without first obtaining all proper rights. The NEA specifically does not authorize or consent to any activity that infringes on any valid rights of the Rights-holder under the laws and treaties of the United States or the Rights-holder’s Country of Origin.

• The Rights-holder possesses and controls all rights to the Work necessary to allow the Translator to create the Translation.

• The rights to translate the Work are presently available.

• Although the Rights-holder does not object to the Translator’s creation of the Translation, the Rights-holder has not yet entered into a final publishing rights agreement with the Translator or any individual or entity acting in concert with the Translator to publish the Work (such as an English-language publisher). Neither the NEA nor the United States Government will be party to any such publishing rights agreement(s) between the Publisher and the Translator and/or any individual or entity acting in concert with the Translator.

• If the author(s) of the Work and the Rights-holder are not the same individual or entity, I am aware of no objection by the author(s) to the creation of this or any English-language translation of the Work. The Rights-holder will promptly give written notice to the NEA if it subsequently learns of any such objection, or if it transfers its right to allow an English-language translation of the Work to any other person or entity prior to publication of the Translation.

I am eighteen years of age or older, and by signing below I warrant that I have read, acknowledged and affirmed the above on behalf of the Rights-holder. I understand that this acknowledgement does not mean I have given up any rights that the Rights-holder may have in the work.

Accepted and agreed:

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Signature

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Print Name and Position

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Date Address

_________________________________________ _____________________________________ E-mail Phone

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