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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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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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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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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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