Copyright laws hardly feature provisions exclusively
for particular types of work, including published journals, research papers and
theses. When it comes to publishing a
journal article, it needs some special considerations for copyright
laws.
When a research paper published in a journal it has
full right to avail copyright safety under the Copyright Act. No one has right
to reprint, adapt, edit, translate or distribute the article other than the
copyright holder. The author has the authority to sue the person who damages or
violates this monopoly.
The author of a research paper owns copyright, once
it gets published. Depending on the journal publication, the writer may issue a
license or he/she can sign over copyright to the paper. Issuing a license
identifies exactly where, how and which means that the author can use a paper.
Several journals request licenses to ensure copyright holder can't let anyone
else use the work.
If anyone wants to reprint, translate, edit or
distribute the research work, published in a journal, he/she needs permission
from the copyright holder. Many journals have a licensing policy that manages
requests from the public for the writer instead of sending every single message
to the writer.
The Copyright Act has a well-known fair use clause,
according to which people can't find guilty to a violation if their use falls
under the fair use. Individuals can use research articles in their courses,
research, news reporting, criticism without getting permission. Moreover,
educators can copy and distribute research papers up to 2,500 words or nor more
than 10 percent of larger papers.
