Copyright
Copyright and Open Access
Publishing in open access doesn't involve the relinquishment of the authors' copyright:
- Authorship is an inalienable right that involves the obligation of users to cite your documents.
- The exploitation rights belong to the author too, unless author transfers them exclusively to third persons, for instance a publisher.
- If you have already published the document with a publisher and you have therefore transferred the exploitation rights, you can learn the permissions given by the editor to publish in open access by checking the SHERPA-ROMEO (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ ), Dulcinea (http://www.accesoabierto.net/dulcinea/ ), etc. projects.
What rights do you transfer to UdG?
- It is necessary to transfer to UdG, non exclusively, the exploitation and public communication rights of your documents to publish in the repositories. [ Authorization document ]
- In the case of audiovisual recording, it's also necessary to sign an authorization of image and voice recording.
[ Authorization document ]
Once you have authorized the University the public communication of your documents and/or materials, you can determine the terms of use you want to permit upon them: "All the rights reserved", Creative Commons Licenses.
What does this mean?
- The University has permission (non exclusive) to spread and publically communicate the document content by any means, Internet included.
- The UdG can only make this communication for research and teaching support purposes, and without any commercial benefit.
- The author keeps the ownership of these rights. Therefore, he/she can transfer them, in a non-exclusive way, to other stakeholders(publishers).
All rights reserved
Article 32.1 of the Copyright Law permits the document reading and the reproduction of extracts under the following terms:
- To indicate the source and the author/s (citation).
- The cited extract should have been included to analyse it or comment it.
- The cited extract should be proportioned enough to justify the purpose of using it.
Creative Commons Licenses
Works under Creative Commons License are identified with a text that indicates "This document is subject to a Creative Commons License" and the icon
The CC License has two formats:
- Commons Deed: abstract of the legal text with the outstanding icons. You can see it with a click on the license icon.
- Legal code: full legal text the selected license is based upon. Acces is by means of the Commons Deed screen.
What do they allow:
- Extent the rights to third persons with the terms that you determine.
- Any of the non-authorized uses can be specifically authorized by the author or the owner of the rights, in the same way as in the traditional copyright model.
The extension of rights to third persons is granted by the combination of the following elements:
Attribution: In any authorized exploitation of the work by the license, it's necessary to recognize the authorship. | |
Non commercial: Work exploitation is limited to a non commercial purpose. | |
No Derivate Works: The authorization for work exploitation doesn't include transformation to create a derivative work. | |
Share alike: The authorized exploitation includes the creation of derivative works, provided that they keep the same license when being spread. |
Kinds of licenses:
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs (by-nc-nd): This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially. | |||
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike (by-nc-sa): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. | |||
Attribution - NonCommercial (by-nc): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms. | |||
Attribution - NoDerivs (by-nd): This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. | |||
Attribution - ShareAlike (by-sa): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to "copyleft" free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. | |||
Attribution (by): This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. |