Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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Is an automatic copyright transfer clause in publisher's instructions to authors typically enforced/enforceable?
Some publishers have a clause like the following in their author instructions:
Submission of a manuscript implies... that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree ...
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Is it legal to share an electronic copy of a few book chapters?
I have scanned a few chapters of a textbook (about 10%) and I want to make the electronic files available to my classmates. The reason why I scanned the chapters initially was so that I could print ...
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Can I scan data from a paper for my own research?
I am a PhD student working in mechanical properties of materials and will be finishing soon. My PhD is in numerical modelling, so I need experimental data (stress-strain curves) to validate my ...
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Arxiving accepted manuscript after publication in Elsevier/IEEE/etc
The Elsevier policies state:
Authors can share their accepted manuscript: by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript
I haven’t arxived a preprint; the paper is published ...
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Is it okay to submit manuscript to arXiv after "revise and resubmit"?
I've read this question about how some publishers (e.g., Springer) allows authors to submit to arXiv before journal submission, but they make authors wait for a year after acceptance to submit to ...
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"Open Access": CC-BY licence
Why would a scientist or mathematician want to publish a paper under the Creative Commons CC BY licence? This licence allows the work to be modified. Why would you want to allow a scientific paper ...
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Copyright – use of images to train algorithm
I am working on a university project about computer vision. Part of my work requires object recognition, for which I would use cascade classifiers. These cascade classifiers need to be “taught” what ...
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How extended must my extended paper be?
I have been approached to submit an extended version of a research paper in a journal.
The original paper is already published in a conference proceedings by publisher A.
What "degree of extension" ...
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Can I upload my open access publications on researchgate.net or academia.edu?
Maybe my question is naive, but:
If my paper was publish as open access (for example in Springer - http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access), could I upload the paper in researchgate.net and similar ...
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Permission on reproduction of data extracted from a figure
I have been studying a recent paper, and wanted to extract the some data from it, in an effort to reproduce it. I wrote to the authors, and got no response, so I got the raw data by digitalizing a ...
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Publishing a conference version of a journal paper at the same time ? (copyright issues) [duplicate]
This may be a question repeated many times, but I want to know your opinion.
I submitted a journal paper for an algorithm (Computer Science). Fearing that the review process take too long, I decided ...
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Publishing with APS open access with a CC-BY license on a preprint server
This is a follow-up on these two questions:
When can I safely use CC-BY license on arXiv? and
What arXiv CC licenses are compatible with American Physical Society publishing?
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Redrawing a schematic diagram/image/schematic circuits to avoid Copyright infringement in publication
From other discussion in Academia SE and other source, I got an impression that redrawing is to avoid Copyright infringement. link1 link2 link3 not from SE link4 link5
I cannot comment there to ask ...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
I'm taking a course named Numerical and Computational Methods Based on Mathematica (Or in Chinese: "基于Mathematica的数值计算方法"), but Wolfram Mathematica is a bit expensive for me to afford. On the first ...
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Lab colleague uses cracked software. Should I report it?
I've just (accidentally) found that one of our colleagues in the lab (who is a graduate student) uses a cracked piece of software on his personal laptop (We were talking near his station and a pop up ...
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