Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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MathSciNet reviews license
I have been asked to become a MathSciNet reviewer. I personally find the database very useful, but I am a bit held back by the fact the database is kept behind a paywall.
What is actually the ...
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What is the legal status of using copyrighted images in academic/conference talks?
I am told that we can use copyrighted images in our lectures to students now as they are for purely educational purposes, as long as we correctly attribute them. That is to say there is no need to ask ...
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How to use copyrighted images in an article?
I have developed an educational software in which I make use of some copyrighted images, for example from Disney, and am now writing an article about it.
How should I reference or cite that those ...
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How to make sure that my lecture notes do not infringe on copyrights?
I'm trying to change the numbers in problems I write for examples I use in my class as well as assignments. However the problems are still inspired by the textbook. Are the problems sufficiently ...
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If my paper is accepted in a Springer journal, can I submit my version of the manuscript to arXiv immediately after acceptance?
I have read the Springer copyrights and self-archiving policy, but they are a bit confusing. For example in the first of them, you may find this:
Author may self-archive an author-created version ...
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Who Owns the Publishing Rights of my Ph.D. Thesis?
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis without copy/pasting any of my prior published articles. Now that the university library got hold of my Ph.D. thesis; I'm wondering who owns the entire publishing rights of my ...
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Using images with CC-BY-SA license in slides or a thesis
If I am using images with a copyleft license (e.g. CC-BY-SA), each of them as a separate, properly attributed piece, does it mean that the whole work (be it slides, a thesis or a book) need to be ...
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Re-typesetting an old paper, what to do with the result?
I am using an old paper, published in 1986.
It is in the form of a "Letter to Nature" (which is a scientific journal).
It doesn't appear to be typeset in TeX, at least not TeX as we know it today.
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Is it okay to upload the PDF of my non-open access papers in academia.edu or research gate?
Is it legal to upload a PDF of my non-open-access papers to research networks, such as ResearchGATE and Academia.edu?
I am pretty sure that it could cause some problems, because normally people ...
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Is it a faux pas to ask for a colleague's figure in a separate but related publication?
I'm an undergraduate with virtually no experience with the expectations of academia (so I apologize in advance for the silly question). I'm finishing up a paper describing my research and would like ...
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Confidentiality of thesis data: PhD with industrial partner
In the field of Mechanical Engineering, when doing a PhD in a University but in partnership with a company, at some universities, an agreement is signed between the company and the university (or ...
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Is it okay to scan a book (that I own) strictly for personal use?
I have a physical book from an Australian publisher which is nearly a thousand pages long, so it's quite hard to carry around with me. It is a book of worked solutions for a math textbook. It has no ...
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Code in journal papers
Most papers do not specify a separate license for the source code, so presumably it would be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the paper. Typically, this means that the copyright lies with ...
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Publishing vs. putting work online under a free license
Suppose a work (a book with abstract math research) is presented as LaTeX source under a copyleft license available at a public Git hosting service.
Will scientists be reluctant to cite such a work, ...
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What licensing concerns are there for using content from Stack Exchange in an academic paper?
All content under Stack Exchange is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Does this mean that any academic paper that uses content from Stack Exchange must also be licensed ...
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