Rights and licences – an overview

Which rights to your work do you transfer to arthistoricum.net?

arthistoricum.net - ART-Books maintains an author-friendly rights policy, which includes granting authors exclusive, unrestricted rights to both the online publication and the dissemination of the final printed version. Authors retain copyright of the work and simply grant arthistoricum.net - ART-Books the right to initial publication. Authors can also enter into separate contracts for the non-exclusive distribution of a version of the work published by arthistoricum.net – ART-Books For example, books may be placed in an institutional repository, or published in print form through another publishing house.

 

Under what conditions would you like to allow your readers to use your work?

The basic prerequisite for a publication on arthistoricum.net is that you as editors or authors agree to a publication in Open Access. Whether and under what conditions your work may be redistributed and, if applicable, also modified, depends on the licence you choose for your work:

If you choose to publish your work under a CC licence, third parties are generally permitted to redistribute it. This means that you not only agree to the dissemination of your own text (to which you own the rights of use), but also to the dissemination of any third-party text and/or images contained therein.

You should therefore check carefully whether you have been given permission by the rights holder to distribute third-party images or other content. If there is no risk of infringing the rights of third parties, we recommend publishing under a CC licence, ideally CC BY-SA 4.0. An overview of the most commonly used Creative Commons licences can be found in the following table and in the info box on the right.

 

Use according to a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence

CC BY SA: By granting this licence, you authorise third parties to distribute and modify your work, including for commercial purposes, as long as the author/s of the original work is/are named and the new works based on your work are published under the same conditions.

 

Use according to another CC licence

CC BY: By granting this licence, you authorise third parties to distribute and modify your work, including for commercial purposes, as long as the author of the original work is acknowledged.

 

CC BY ND: By granting this licence, you authorise third parties to redistribute the work, commercially and non-commercially, as long as it is complete, unmodified and authorship is acknowledged.

 

CC BY NC as with CC BY – with the additional restriction that no commercial use is permitted.

 

CC BY NC SA as with CC BY SA – with the additional restriction that no commercial use is permitted.

 

CC BY NC ND as with CC BY ND – with the additional restriction that no commercial use is permitted.

 

Whenever you are unsure about the use of external image material, we recommend that you publish under the label “Free access – all rights reserved”.

 

Free access – all rights reserved

This work is protected by copyright and/or related rights, but accessible free of charge. Use, in particular duplication, is only permitted within legal copyright limits, or with the consent of the copyright holder.