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License of code accompanying a published article
Given a paper that introduces a new algorithm and upon publication copyright is transferred to the publisher.
Is an implementation of the presented algorithm considered a derivative of the published ...
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Do Nature journals wrongly claim copyright in their published pdfs?
I just noticed this and I'm slightly confused by a small detail.
The Nature Publishing Group states in its Publishing Licences page that the copyright on articles remains with the author:
NPG does ...
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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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Can I include images licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 in a conference paper?
I'm writing an academic paper, which hopefully will be accepted and published in the conference proceeding.
In order to explain my idea, I'm also drawing a figure including a free image licensed by ...
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What criteria need to be matched to be able to distribute a research article openly?
Distributing articles that are not freely available can get you into trouble. However, it is important to share and distribute knowledge.
If you are not sure about whether or not you are allowed to ...
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Where/how can I find out if I can use this paper commercially vs for research purposes only?
I wanted to implement this paper for commercial purposes, but the licence for use is not mentioned at all.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09104.pdf
Dynamic Feature Fusion for Semantic Edge Detection
Where/...
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Include code snippet which is licensed under the MIT License in a paper
My paper is about a software I created which uses part of another software licensed under the MIT license. It is available on Github and includes a copy of the MIT license correctly. Additionally the ...
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No specific license & no copyright transfer agreement: do I retain rights without restrictions?
I have a question about publishing. If I publish a paper in a journal that does not specify any type of license used, and I am never asked to transfer the copyright.
Apart from this, the journal ...
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Code in a conference paper: should I put license terms there?
I am currently writing a conference paper (an IEEE conf, if that matters) in which I include a piece of code. Pertaining to the license of the code, should I, at the beginning of the code, write ...
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Sharing an unpublished paper but retrieved from a third-party site?
Ten years ago my colleagues in a grad program (at a US university) produced a paper but it was never published (in a formal journal or website). It was only distributed by email to the department and ...
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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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Switch license between arxiv preprint and accepted manuscript for Elsevier publication
I want to submit a paper to Elsevier (yes, I know, evil me - there are specific reasons). Elsevier allows sharing preprints "anywhere at any time". Later, one is allowed to "update a ...
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May I publish the slides from my presentation that use figures from published papers as examples?
I used some screenshots from academic published papers (e.g. figures) in my presentation that I gave to a group of colleagues. The screenshots were used as examples of how you should or should not do ...
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Can I use code from a supplementary material and publish it as part of my own paper?
Someone published a paper whose supplementary material contains source code. Can I include part of that code (I would mark it as copied in the source and the manuscript) in my own code, which is ...
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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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Copyright issue regarding creating an image by using other images taken from a website
I need to use images related to "cricket umpire signals" in my paper. I want to create a new image by putting some of these small images together along with graphs and comments next to them. ...
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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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