Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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Can I delete figures on accepted manuscript?
I am now in panic. One of my paper got accepted by journal. However, I am stuck with the copyright from two figures I have used in my research paper. These two figures ( these two from open access ...
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Copyrights of recorded lectures? [closed]
Most universities around the world are now requesting their lecturers to record lectures and post them on a repository. In my university, we use Moodle to store and share video recordings.
My question ...
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Using photos obtained from academic homepages in a research seminar talk
I am preparing a research seminar talk in an academic discipline which I'll give online (with Beamer) at University X.
I like to show images of the people whose ideas have gone into my work. Most of ...
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Non-Disclosure Agreement & Data Publication
I am an Industrial Ph.D. and the company involved in my Ph.D. provides data for my research.
I signed an NDA with the company since the data comes from proprietary source I cannot disclose.
The main ...
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Publishing figures in conference abstracts - will this constitute formal “publication” that will preclude our publication of this figure in journal?
I have a manuscript in final stages of editing to submit it for publication, most likely to an ACS journal. My advisor would also like me to present this research in the upcoming ACS conference. I ...
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What are copyright infringement examples in the academia? [closed]
Does anyone have copyright infringement examples in the Academia?
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Licence in a reproduced figure caption
I am writing a thesis at a university. In my thesis, I directly copy a figure from an article published on Sciencedirect. I have obtained permission to use this figure over Rightslink. I now would ...
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Can we detect plagiarism from/in a podcast?
Is there a way to match content
of an article from a podcast source,
of a podcast from an article source or
of a podcast from another podcast source?
I haven't heard of any tool that can check ...
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Is it allowed to publish an explanation of someone's thesis?
Last spring, I did a research project where I tried to develop code, modelling a physical system using a method developed by a researcher and presented as his PhD. thesis.
Now I have completed my work ...
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Can I publish a yellow paper written when I was employed?
I am a developer graduate in Artificial Intelligence. I wrote an interesting draft document seeking feedback from fellow developers, and data scientists.
The paper was about stream reasoning and how I ...
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How can a book's copyright year be in the future? [duplicate]
I recently noticed that in the book "Investing for Dummies" by Eric Tyson, the copyright is listed for 2021, even if at the time of making this post the year is still 2020. How is this ...
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Copyright of microscopy data acquired by myself [closed]
The question is the following: What is the copyright of imaging data (microscopy) I acquired during working in a research laboratory? Can I use this on my homepage / personal website?
I took the ...
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Could lecturing from a textbook constitute copyright infringement?
If a course instructor closely follows a textbook when delivering a lecture (e.g. even listing the subsection they're discussing) could they be in violation of copyright law? What if they upload the ...
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Will it violate copyright if I use an essay question from a book and write my own essay and publish it on my website? [closed]
Suppose that there is a book by Cambridge or Oxford. In that book, there are some essay samples. I want to take those essay titles and write my own essays for them. Does this violate copyright?
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Include figures from publications in thesis (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0)
I would be interest what is common/best practice to include figures from published papers/literature in my thesis (Which will be published open-access). The figures of interest are copyrighted 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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Can I publish open access articles on my personal website?
I have written a couple of articles for a print journal which I found, at the time of publication, were available online for free as Open Access. This was around two years ago. Can I also publish them ...
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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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Can I use downloaded PDF English Language Course Books for teaching my students?
I am an English language teacher about to start private online teaching. A friend pointed me to the academia website as it provides old editions of English File student course books to download for ...
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Posting an open access IEEE paper to Researchgate
I am wondering if I can upload my accepted early access IEEE paper to Researchgate for public viewing?
The paper has the following "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ...
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Am I allowed to provide the Camera Ready Copy (CRC) / Preprint of my paper published in Springer Workshop Proceedings online on my homepage?
my work was accepted as workshop paper and the conference was held some weeks ago. Until now, the paper is nowhere published. Last year, the Spriner Workshop Proceedings needed 6 months to publish it. ...
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Reporting error in publication after copyright transfer
Last year my paper got accepted in a Mathematics journal. This year the online first version of the article came out. I put the online version on research gate and a lot of people read the article. ...
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IEEE Copyright and replacing previous ArXiv/TechRxiv versions
I know that similar questions have been posted before but i cannot find a specific and complete answer.
Suppose that i post a preprint article on ArXiv/TechRxiv. Then, i submit the paper to an IEEE ...
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Using my email and webpage screenshots in my thesis [duplicate]
My research is about data-driven marketing methods and applying those methods in education. In my PhD thesis, I use some screenshots of commercial emails in my email box from companies such as Amazon, ...
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Journal allows me to choose whether to transfer copyright – why would I do so?
I am a mathematics undergraduate in the USA. Recently I had a paper accepted to a math journal, and in the final steps of the process I had to fill out a “consent to publish” form, in which I had the ...
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Can I republish what is already published on ArXiv after a copyright transfer?
I will explain the case (because it is unique):
If I publish an article in arXiv under the arXiv license (not under CC license), consequently I retain the copyright.
Four months later, I write other ...
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Is it a problem if I forget to add IEEE copyright clearance code?
My paper has been accepted at an IEEE conference. The author instructions state clearly that I should add the "copyright clearance code" myself. I forgot to do so in the final version of the ...
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Is it ok to use Github code by having explicit permission from author for Thesis but without license mentioned on the repository?
I am writing my Master Thesis. I used code from GitHub for my application and did modifications and extended its functionality to adjust my requirements. I am also citing the code in my own code and ...
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Company logo in my lecture slides
I'm currently working on the slides for my database lecture. During the lecture I want to talk about different tools and available programs for database management. Am I allowed to use logos on my ...
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Can I use the slides published in the course websites to teach in my own courses? [duplicate]
Stanford University (and others) usually publish slides/lecture notes on the corresponding websites.
For instance, this one: http://cs229.stanford.edu/
If I teach a course in the same topic, can I ...
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