Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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How long does it take before an academic article can no longer be kept behind a paywall?
Just a curiosity: after how many years does publications become public (cannot be kept behind a paywall anymore)?
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Am I allowed to share a final copy of my published paper privately?
Suppose I published a paper in a journal with no open-access policy, but with the usual constraints regarding copyright.
A researcher that I do not know in person has asked me for a copy of a this ...
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Can I publish a source code containing potential copyright violations that someone gave me at a university (updated)?
During my Ph.D. work at a university, I followed up on someone else's doctoral work (I am no longer associated with that university). This person provided me with the source code for his work. I ...
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Can I use images from my published papers in my thesis without copyright infringment?
I have to fill in copyright form for my PHD thesis submission.
I have used some of the images already published in my IEEE/IET journal and conference papers.
I signed copyright forms during the ...
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What determines the copyright year for a publication?
I wonder what determines the copyright year for a publication. I thought that the copyright year would be the same as the publication year, but seeing in (1)
put me in doubt (publication year: 2011; ...
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Can the university force me to share my courses publicly online? I want to use my course material to write a book in the future [closed]
As a response for the Covid-19 pandemic, my university built an electronic platform, and is now ordering professors to share their courses on it.
The school platform is open to the public, so I'd ...
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How tightly enforced are open-access embargoes?
Many academic journals have copyright policies which forbid authors (possibly for a finite embargo time) to make their papers (either preprints, accepted manuscripts, or camera-ready versions) freely ...
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Can I submit published articles to arXiv as well?
I have several math research articles on my site.
Some of my articles are published in open access journals.
Some of my articles are currently available only from my site.
I may probably publish ...
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Do publishers simply waive their exclusive rights without any resistance?
Assumption based upon my experience from CS: Typically, the business model of academic publishers is to archive and disseminate papers whose authors have transferred exclusive publication rights to ...
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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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Retyping some material to obscure source of a textbook with a solution manual?
This is my first time teaching mathematics. I've been giving lessons based on a certain textbook which contains excellent exercises (not just the exercises, but the order in which they appear leads ...
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I would like to translate an old dissertation, who owns the copyright?
I have found by absolute chance a doctorate thesis by a foreign author dating from the 70s, having as a subject the village where my parents are from. I was able to order it and have it in my ...
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Solution manual and copyright?
Recently, I have worked out a solution manual for a book.
I have not found on the Internet any existing complete solution manual for this book.
Since the solution manual of mine contains every ...
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Which license should be chosen in arXiv for a paper to be published in Elsevier?
I would like to know what license needs to be chosen in arXiv for a paper that is to be sent to an Elsevier journal. I have read the terms of both arXiv and Elsevier attentively, but I'm still in ...
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Who holds intellectual property rights on a thesis?
I thought of an interesting idea for a thesis for my Masters program and I think I would eventually be able to sell a product that is built from the algorithms/code that I develop for this thesis. I ...
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