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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.