A Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/) license is simply a permission by the author or copyright holder for other people to re-distribute the work, or make other uses that the author permits. For instance, an author may wish to allow translations and other derivative works, but require attribution, the author could apply a CC-BY license. If an…
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(This is a "Page")Copyright Notices
These days, notices are not required to get a copyright. (Neither is registration.) However, it is still useful to put a copyright notice on your work. For one thing, it establishes a fixed date and name of copyright holder — it’s a form of metadata that most people recognize and understand. For another reason, it…
(This is a "Page")Protect your figures and images
When authors sign publication agreements with commercial publishers, they typically transfer their copyright away, for life. Unfortunately, if the author includes figures, tables, or graphics in their paper, they may lose the copyright to those works, too — requiring an author to ask permission or even pay fees to use their very own work. However,…
(This is a "Page")Previous Workshops
This is an archive of prior workshops, discussion groups, and talks, for some semesters. Please see https://websites.umass.edu/copyright/workshops-appointments/ for current workshops. New England Copyright Bootcamps: January 16-17, 2020: Western Massachusetts Copyright Workshop (Kyle Courtney, Copyright First Responders, and Laura Quilter) May 31, 2019: “Digitizing Challenges” (Laura Quilter, Kyle Courtney, Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Joan Emmet) January 10,…
(This is a "Page")Shifting Courses from Face-to-Face to Remote
Many pedagogical and technical issues make the shift from in-person to remote online teaching challenging, but for once, copyright is not a big additional area of worry! Most of the legal issues are the same in both contexts. If it was okay to do in class, it is often okay to do online, especially when…
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On this website, we provide basic fact sheets and tutorials about copyright and other information law topics that may affect your research or teaching. For further research, major copyright and publishing treatises and references are available for reference in the Scholarly Communication Dept., 19th floor, Du Bois Library. Authors and Publishing Author Organizations Author Rights…
UMass Libraries comments to NSF on open access
The UMass Libraries have submitted comments to the NSF for its 2017-2018 Strategic Plan update. (Further reading: Summary of current Strategic Plan, and full text of current Strategic Plan, published in 2014.) Re: Comments on Strategic Plan, 2017-18 Update Dear National Science Foundation, Thank you for providing this opportunity to comment on the 2017-18 update…
(This is a "Page")Workshops and Guest Lectures
Workshops: Librarians at UMass offer workshops on a range of topics relating to copyright, author rights, and information law. Contact us at copyright@umass.edu to request a workshop or guest lecture in your class or department, or an individual consultation. Copyright for Complete Beginners March 3, 10-11am March 22, 1-230pm Creative Commons 101: How to Find Images,…
(This is a "Page")Author Charges in Publishing
Academic authors may pay a variety of charges in scholarly publishing, from APCs (“author publication charges”) for open access, to page charges, to color charges. Some of these charges Up-front costs Page charges – n% of journals across disciplines charge APCs (author page charges); this varies across disciplines Color charges – Charges for color figures Submission…