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Tagged with copyright research-process
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Can I cite and reference a book in a research or graduate work if I don't know its license?
Is it strictly legal to cite or reference to books found on the internet in my graduate work or research or not? I don't know their license, but heard about fair use rule or law in the US. The thing I ...
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Can I collect published images of biological specimens in a database for scientific purposes?
I'd like to create a database with published photographs of some biological species to use them for scientific research, but I have questions according copyright law.
Can I use published images in a ...
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What to do when a section of a published paper has a section which contains similar results as mine?
I had a research article posted in arXiv on November 2020 and it is currently in review by a leading journal, I call it J1.
Today when I was browsing research papers, I found that a research paper has ...
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Copyright issue of recorded video game when publishing research paper about it?
Background: I'm preparing research about a music-based arcade game, playable in the arcade game center. Requiring video dataset (including music in it), I recorded videos from the game playing by ...
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Adding co-author without consent of all co-authors [closed]
I have been collaborating with an individual on a scientific paper. I have documents showing that this individual has shared the paper content with other people. Also, the individual has added co-...
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How to properly adapt academic papers obtained from a university to private companies?
My post is more related to private research than academic research, but as I think they could be strongly related, I thought this would be the most appropriate place to ask.
I have recently started ...
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Why do "Author's Rights" in "Consent to Publish" agreements allow pre-print publications?
I have published in journal X and given them the rights to my work. In the "Author's Rights" clause, it says that I am allowed to post my work to pre-print servers (in the form immediately ...
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Who owns the research data at US research institutions?
When a graduate student, or PI does government funded (NSF/NIH/etc) research at a US R1 institution who owns the data?
What portion of the copyright for the research data does the graduate student ...
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Is it legal to publicly share questionnaires from research articles?
I've found articles on the development of diagnostic questionnaires that I only have access to through my university. I'm interested in sharing some of them publicly online so more people can have ...
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Web Crawl Dataset - Legal & Practical feedback [closed]
I'm working on a web site classification method. Papers in field (Text Classification / Web Page Classification) are usually using:
a) Ancient, but well known & widely adopted, datasets like ...
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Research topic already covered, change direction or what?
The previous days i begun with a research project on economic impact of physical disasters, and in the mean time , I found a paper with the same topic published 10 years ago (Sample period 1980-2003). ...
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Using copyrighted images for research, not publication
Does one violate the copyright of images in any sense if one uses them in research (for example in memory tasks) and writes a scientific publication based on these data, but does not publish images in ...
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What is the right way to patent an idea under PhD studies?
Let us assume that a phd student has discovered a brilliant idea during his/her phd studies and that the idea has not been published or presented yet.
How can that student protect the idea under a ...
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Copyright on a research photography
I was part of a research group in a research institute I called 'X'. In this research we used a very interesting, colorful technique so I take some pictures for myself that are very artistic. Now I ...
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Creating dataset by scraping YouTube?
I'm trying to build a large dataset of images for training a machine learning model. My idea is to generate these images by grabbing frames off YouTube videos. My question: would this violate ...
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Is copying numbers from published scientific articles considered plagiarism/copyright infringement?
Considering that proper reference is provided (journal, author name, date etc.), is copying exact numbers from published scientific articles could be considered plagiarism or copyright infringement?
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Is it advisable to get copyright on a research proposal and an academic article before submitting them? [closed]
Is it advisable to get copyright on a research proposal and an academic article before submitting them?
Do you think there are some distinctions between the two cases mentioned (a research proposal ...
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How to obtain the files created by previous university researchers, both legally and physically? [closed]
I'm a post doc at a U.S. University. I need the files of a grad student research assistant who has left the lab. The student was a funded RA. The student created files (data, codes, simulations, ...
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What are your policies regarding ownership of computer code in your lab? [closed]
I work in a large US-based university, in biomedical sciences and am PI of my own research lab. One of my current interests is to develop a research line that uses machine/deep learning (ML) to solve ...
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Fair use amount in short journal articles?
When it comes to how much one is allowed to copy from a book or a journal article, I often read about it as being 10% of the total pages number or a whole complete chapter (whichever is higher). ...
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Fair use and copyrighted materials explicitly stating not to use
I am currently sourcing some ideas from a few books (through Google Books) and I sometimes stumble upon introductory messages from the authors/editors of these books saying something like:
"All ...
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Google Books fair use and paraphrasing
I am writing some essays for some MBA courses and I will start writing my master thesis soon. I always prefer to source ideas out of books and journals, rather than online resources. Google Books is a ...
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Using proprietary software to demonstrate work in conference
I am going to conduct a workshop on my research work and for that I need to show how it is done on the software. I want to know,
Is it ok to display the proprietary software (through TeamViewer) from ...
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What does it mean when a paper is copyrighted by an organization?
While I was searching for materials for my research topic, I found a research paper which is signed as copyright by "Some organization". Does that mean that I could not use the content of this paper ...