SCOIR Glossary of Copyright and Publication Rights Terminology

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All rights reserved

'All rights reserved' is the default position of a work, indicating that the author retains all exploitation rights over their work, and anyone who wishes to reuse the work needs to ask them for permission, except for uses stated as limitations, exceptions or fair use, according to the applicable copyright law. It is the default situation in the absence of the legal notice or terms of use.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

An article processing charge (APC) is a fee charged to an author by a journal publisher to make the version of record of an article open access via the journal website. Not all Open Access journals charge APCs. A minority of DOAJ-indexed Open Access journals exert these charges. The Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th Anniversary Recommendations urge funders, institutions and authors: 'Move away from article processing charges (APCs)'.

ASCAP

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Assignment

The transfer of property or rights from one party to another.

Attributed

To be identified as the work of a particular author.

Attribution

When reproducing, distributing or communicating publicly someone else's work, there is a requirement to give the correct credit to the original author and, in some licences for example the CC ones, it is further extended to anyone designated to receive attribution.

Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM)

The version of the manuscript that contains the academically final text, but not yet the typesetting and formatting from the publisher. For scholarly articles in journals, this is the text after changes in response to peer-review but before the publisher's typesetting and formatting has been applied. May otherwise be known as the ‘author manuscript’, ‘final author version’ or ‘post-print’. For chapters, this is the version of the manuscript that has been agreed for publication.

Authorised agent

In terms of copyright registration, an authorised agent is someone acting for the copyright owner and has been instructed by the copyright owner to register work on their behalf.

Author’s addendum

An addendum to a publishing agreement that authors may attach to include their conditions to publish, for instance the retention of certain rights over their work not included in the original agreement.

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Book Processing Charge (BPC)

A book processing charge (BPC) is a fee paid to a publisher to make the published version of a book freely available on the publisher's website (Gold Open Access)

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Chapter Processing Charge (CPC)

A chapter processing charge (CPC) is a fee paid to a publisher to make the published version of a chapter freely available on the publisher's website (gold Open Access)

Copyright

A rights regime that grants exclusive rights to creators of original works, including literary, artistic, musical, and other creative expressions, allowing them to control how their works are used and distributed.

Copyright notices

A notice which is placed on a work to inform others that the work is protected by copyright.

Copyright symbol

Copyright transfer

The document where the original copyright holder grants any or all the rights over a work to a person or entity that then become the new holder.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is an organisation that provides licensing information aimed at achieving a mutual sharing and flexible approach to copyright.

Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY)

A license that allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creative Commons (CC) licences

A set of open licensing that grants rights under certain conditions and requirements, depending on the elements of each licence.

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Date of acceptance

The date of acceptance is the point at which the author is notified that: their output has been reviewed by the journal or conference (normally via peer review), all academically necessary changes have been made in response to that review, the article is ready to be taken through the final steps toward publication (normally copy-editing and typesetting). The date of acceptance for conference proceedings is not necessarily the date at which your contribution to the conference was accepted for presentation, but rather the date at which your fully authored research output was accepted for publication in the conference proceedings. Chapters may not have a formal date of acceptance.

Defamatory

Use that lowers public opinion or harms a reputation.

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