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Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.

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Copyright Status of a Math Text

If this is not the correct forum for this question, or too specific, feel free to close it. I'm more or less from MSE, and this seemed like the place to ask. There's this well-known math text called "Characteristic Classes" by Milnor and Stasheff…
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How can I "time-stamp" my data without publishing it?

If I have a DB or set of data, and want to grant access to it to a limited group of experts in a field (not general access), and don't want others using it for their own publications, nor seeing the information being offered for free on the…
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Can I hand out students a few pages from books as supplementary materials?

No textbook is perfect. So if I want to supplement my course with some material (a few pages from different references every now and then, on topics I find lacking or weak in the textbook): is it legal to make copies of those a few pages and give…
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Distributing your own papers in your thesis

I published three papers during my PhD, I'm now writing my thesis. I have written three chapters, each based around each paper, but re-written so as not to fall foul of self-plagiarism rules. However, I've still used ALL of the figures from the…
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How can I write a book about paper writing which contains real examples without violating copyright?

I'm teaching a course on computer-science paper writing, and I aim to turn my notes into a book for publication. It's designed specifically for Chinese postgraduate students who are writing their first paper. In my course (and thus in the book), I…
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How to make sure that my lecture notes do not infringe on copyrights?

I'm trying to change the numbers in problems I write for examples I use in my class as well as assignments. However the problems are still inspired by the textbook. Are the problems sufficiently different from the textbook problems to not have…
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Can I upload multimedia from subscription access journals to third party websites

I am the author of an accepted and published manuscript in a peer-reviewed subscription access article. Accompanying this manuscript are some videos I created. I would like to upload these videos to a third party website and want to know if this is…
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What does the "final published version" refer to in copyright?

I'm trying to figure out if I can put a PDF that I give Springer on arXiv. Note that this PDF has had further changes made to it after it has been already accepted by a conference; it's not the same as the conference submission. Springer's copyright…
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Can I collect meta information on papers and put this online?

For my thesis I have had to go through many different sources to find relevant literature. I want to share my reading list with others to make it easier for people who want to study the same topic to find relevant information. I have set up a little…
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Are Scantron Sheets under Copyright? Or are there non-proprietary alternatives?

Could my institution get into legal hot water if we were to make copies of blank Scantron sheets? If so, are there good free alternatives for machine readable bubble sheets?
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Can individual sharing of a published article form a copyright violation?

It is very common for researchers to share published articles upon individual requests, and many copyright transfer statements explicitly allow this. In the case that the copyright transfer statement does not explicitly allow sharing the published…
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How to proceed with copyright permission if you can't contact the author?

I found a 2016 presentation by an author in my niche field and want to get permission to reuse and modify a few of his figures for my master's thesis. But, the presentation doesn't has any copyright notice. I can't find a way to contact him. I…
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Writing a book chapter. Figure etiquette

I am writing a book chapter in theoretical computer science. I would like to add figures based on figures previously published in relevant papers. In the caption of each Figure I will cite the original source. Obviously, the figures that I will…
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Unnecessary figure permission... issues?

I need to submit my PhD thesis for archiving (online and physical), and a copyright-related question dawned on me. I used a figure from a book in my introduction. It is a very standard materials science schematic of crystal systems that is present…
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Uploading potentially copyrighted material onto Academia.edu

On Academia.edu, a user uploaded a Translation Database of Sun Tzu's Art of War, which includes translations as recent as 2020. Alongside it was a Bibliography Document that references all works shown in the former. I’d like to upload a similar…
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