Questions tagged [license]
A License can be official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing, product or material.
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Is it possible to share a CC-BY-licensed article on ResearchGate that contains copyrighted material?
My open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0) contains a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book). I obtained permission and the caption correctly states that the copyright of the figure ...
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Publishing parts of my thesis under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License in journals
I am about to electronically "publish" my PhD thesis under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Some chapters will eventually be published in journals, and I am wondering if that type ...
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Can I cite and reference a book in a research or graduate work if I don't know its license?
Is it strictly legal to cite or reference to books found on the internet in my graduate work or research or not? I don't know their license, but heard about fair use rule or law in the US. The thing I ...
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Copyright for PhD Thesis? [closed]
Which of the following copyrights is most suitable for a PhD thesis and how do each of them restrict the use of the ideas presented in the thesis?
1. Copyright © [Year], [My Name]. All Rights Reserved....
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Publish an article as part of the dissertation, even though it has already been published in the journal
I am about to publish my dissertation via the university library, which is mandatory according to the doctoral regulations of my university.
I have written a total of 4 articles as part of my ...
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Uploading adapted research code with missing licence
I adapted some code from a public GitHub repository for a paper, and I have to upload my code to make my work reproducible. I cite the work for which the repository was created in the paper and added ...
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Do I need to get the authors permission for creating a similar image?
Consider a situation where author X explains a concept on his website (no copyright marks etc.).
He also provides graphics to visualize what he puts in words in that explanaton.
I cited that ...
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Correctly citing a cc-licensed picture that is third-party-material already
There is a picture in an article I want to use. The article is by John Doe (2020). The picture is on page 100.
The caption of the picture says
"Model by Denver (2005, p. 3; 2010, p.10)"
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How to cite when modifying a graphic out of an article that is CC-licensed?
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I want to create a graphic in my thesis that is based on a graphic included in a published article. The whole article itself has a creative-commons license. How do I do this correctly? Is ...
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Is there a flaw in the Elsevier green OA license?
I'm checking the Elsevier article sharing policies and I think there is a problem with their license of the accepted manuscript (post-review article). Indeed, the instructions say:
Authors can share ...
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Does publication of results trigger the GPLv3 license?
I have modified scientific open-source code licensed with the GPLv3 license. If I run some simulations on my PC with this modified code and later on I want to publish a paper with the results of my ...
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Requiring specific licensing for optional coursework - is it OK?
To gain extra credit for a course I lead, students can share their notes from a lecture which we intend to use as starting point to develop a better (free) learning material than just sharing slides ...
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May I use a CC BY-SA 4.0 image (own work) for an open access journal article under CC BY 4.0?
Some years ago I uploaded some images to Wikimedia commons and selected "own work". That images were uploaded under a CC BY-SA 4.0 License.
However, the journal (in which I am attempting to ...
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Can you use an open access CC-BY ND scientific article for text annotation?
We plan to use clinical trial articles in one of the text annotation projects. This article mentions the license below.
This is an open-access article under the terms of the Creative Commons ...
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Does the license for arXiv uploads apply to TeX source or the PDF?
I am wondering to which of the content that I publish on arXiv the license I chose during publication applies.
Let's assume that I uploaded just a single TeX-source file and filled out the form with ...
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