Author Rights
LibGuides: Author Rights Resources: Understanding Author Rights
The resources in this guide are designed to help authors understand and maintain their rights throughout the scholarly publication process.
Authors' rights are internationally protected by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and by other similar treaties.
FAQ: Authorship and Ownership in U.S. Copyright Law
By choosing not to transfer all exclusive rights for all time, authors retain some rights to reproduce, distribute, and revise their own works.
Author's Rights and Copyright - LibGuides
For the purposes of copyright law, an author is anyone who creates original expression in a fixed medium, like a book, journal article, computer ...
Authors and Copyright | Scholarly Communications
This section provides information on author rights and related resources to assist authors with management of their rights.
Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum
SPARC provides a full set of resources, including an author addendum, to teach authors about their rights, and to help effectively manage copyright.
Understand Your Rights as an Author | OU Libraries
OU Libraries offers support to help you understand your publishing agreement, complete the addendum, and negotiate your contract.
Author's rights and intellectual property - Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Who owns the intellectual property of a work? The intellectual property of a piece of work belongs to its author, since it was he or she that created it. This ...
What Writers Should Know about Copyright
Generally, the author and initial copyright owner of a work is the person who writes the piece. ... For more information, see Works Made for Hire (Circular 30).
Understanding Author Rights and Publishing Agreements
Every author is entitled to basic, inherent rights under US copyright law as the creator of an original work of intellectual property.
Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Author's Rights - ACRL LibGuides
Authors should take care to assign the rights to their work in a manner that permits them and their students and colleagues to use their work in teaching, ...
Authors' Rights - Copyright Quick Reference Guide
This guide provides basic information on copyright law to help you make sense of your copyright questions.
Copyright Introduction: Authors' Rights - Library Guides
All authors co-own the copyright to the resulting work. Each author can transfer ownership of the copyright yet must share any profits from the ...
Understanding copyright for journal authors - Author Services
Copyright is a type of intellectual property right which protects original creative works, including literary works such as academic articles.
Copyright & Author's Rights - UCR Library
Understanding Copyright Copyright is the exclusive legal right given to an entity to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, ...
Author's rights, copyright & permissions - Scholarly Publishing
If you're a Tufts author, you likely hold copyright to your work unless it was transferred to someone else (like a journal publisher).
The difference between author's rights and copyright - Copibec
Authors' rights protect the creators first and foremost. That is the essential difference between copyright and authors' rights.
Author rights | Emerald Publishing
As an Emerald author, you have a choice of two licences to deposit your AAM under; you may either include the copyright line of the published work, or deposit ...
Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum
The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles.
Author Rights & Responsibilities - ACM Authors Portal
All ACM published authors of magazine articles, journal articles, and conference papers retain the right to post the pre-submitted (also known as pre-prints).