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Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.

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Who is the copyright holder of a PhD thesis published in ProQuest?

The original author is probably the copyright holder. … Absent a clear hint (eg an existing university policy, a commercial-looking funder) that someone else would hold copyright, I'd work on the assumption it's the author. …
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When can/can't I upload full-text to researchgate?

This is entirely dependent on the policy of the publishers - there is no single general rule. For example: Cambridge: no (but you can upload the submitted version) Elsevier: possibly share the manus …
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6 votes

License issue: publishing an image of famous person in the scientific paper

Assuming the photograph is still under copyright, yes. The copyright owner of the photograph. This will usually be the photographer. …
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Has there ever been a successful copyright infringement suit against someone using a small a...

Half an answer... I no longer have a copy of Permissions: a survival guide (lent it to someone and never saw it again) but from memory, it discusses a few cases along these lines, particularly from t …
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4 votes

Where do I put the Creative Commons license information in a book?

If the entire book is in a single PDF, or if you have the "front matter" as a seperate PDF, you could put the license + link on the copyright page (reverse of the title page), and it's often common to …
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Fair use and copyrighted materials explicitly stating not to use

However, it will not prevent you doing anything you would otherwise have been allowed to do as reasonable fair use/fair dealing/etc by local copyright law - generally speaking, the publisher cannot prevent …
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4 votes

What does assigning the copyright of a paper mean?

This copyright statement does not say whether you can put it on the repository or your personal website. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like WIT Press actually have a clear policy on this. …
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3 votes

Possible to put online a PhD dissertation under a Creative Commons license, as some text is ...

If the copyright in the material is held by someone else, you cannot license the entire work CC-BY. …
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28 votes
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If my paper is accepted in a Springer journal, can I submit my version of the manuscript to ...

The short answer is: yes, staggered posting rights like this are very common - many journals distinguish between your own website, your institutional repository, and a broader repository (eg arXiv, pu …
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16 votes
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Using images with CC-BY-SA license in slides or a thesis

Including CC-licensed images as discrete elements in your work does not require the overall work to be CC-licensed. Reasoning 2 is correct here. (See a similar discussion on opendata.se) The BY-SA …
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Why don't academics bypass restrictions on the distribution of their papers the same way as ...

Simply solving the copyright question won't actually mean people then go on to make material available. … To do this, we've used funder mandates (and pushing the publishers into agreeing embargos) rather than hacking at copyright transfers on an institutional level, and it's generally worked okay. …
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