Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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What to do when someone is doing the same subtopic (originally brought up by me) of our group project as me and not willing to collaborate
Basically, we are in group of four working on a larger project in a graduate seminar. I brought up an idea to approach a subtopic X (abbreviated as X for convenience, but if you are familiar with ...
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Copyright issue regarding creating an image by using other images taken from a website
I need to use images related to "cricket umpire signals" in my paper. I want to create a new image by putting some of these small images together along with graphs and comments next to them. ...
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Copyright for a thesis
In my thesis most illustrations are mine but some of them aren't and all the illustrations that aren't mine are used with permission.
However, my college department has a history of plagiarism. What ...
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Plagiarism (and the wider problem of copyright) discussion
Anything related to copyright that I've known, as someone who is not a lawyer, goes like this:
"As long as you cite properly, there is no need to worry about plagiarism"
Today I learned that ...
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Someone I don't know contributed to my program on GitHub. Can I still present that program as my Bachelor thesis?
I am a third-year computer engineering student at a university in Croatia.
In 2020, my Computer Architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and an emulator for PicoBlaze that would run in any ...
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Is it legal to use Helvetica on scientific plots?
I am making some histograms for an upcoming manuscript. My advisors hate the default font of my plotting library (matplotlib to be precise) so they asked me to change it to something they are familiar ...
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Is it necessary to obtain permissions for using figures from my published articles in my dissertation?
How can I ask a journal to use my figures, knowing that the journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License?
If it is unnecessary, how can I do it ...
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Can I reuse a figure I created and had published if the publisher leaves the copyright with me, the author?
Let's say I create a figure. I then publish a paper that includes this figure in an open access journal where the author retains copyright to the paper and allows the journal to apply the CC-BY ...
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I put my Bachelor thesis (the text of it) on GitHub, and my mentor asked me to delete it. However, my repository has been forked. What now?
I put my Bachelor thesis on GitHub (both the text and the code itself). Today, my mentor found it via Googling (?) and contacted me about it. He said that he is afraid that DABAR (the Croatian ...
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how to indicate permission when reusing a figure from a published study [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding the inclusion of a figure in my grant proposal.
I followed the necessary steps and obtained permission, which was granted free of charge. I ...
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Is publishing a book with solutions to exercises in a math book that doesn't provide them legal? [duplicate]
Is it legal to publish a book with solutions to all exercises proposed in a math book without solutions or an instructor´s manual provided? Is it necessary to ask any permission to do that?
An old ...
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Copyright-free maps for journal figures
I am writing an epidemiology paper for an academic journal, and would like to have a figure showing the map of a geographical region of interest.
My current map was generated with OpenStreetMap data, ...
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Posting an author's accepted manuscript on arXiv
Many journals allows one to post an author's accepted manuscript online, provided some embargo period has lapsed and an acknowledgment is included. For example, for Springer Nature journals, an ...
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Can a (predatory or fake) journal refuse to withdraw a non-published paper, even though the journal is to blame for withdrawal request?
Synopsis: Can a fake journal keep the copyright of a submitted (not published) paper, despite the authors' request to withdraw it (because of the journal not keeping its full-waiver promise and also ...
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How to proceed with copyright permission if you can't contact the author?
I found a 2016 presentation by an author in my niche field and want to get permission to reuse and modify a few of his figures for my master's thesis. But, the presentation doesn't has any copyright ...
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