Patholines:Copyright

From patholines.org
Jump to navigation Jump to search

All content in Patholines is open access. Everything in Patholines is by default published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license, meaning that anyone reusing the content must mention the names of the creators (see next section for details). Patholines also accepts images released into the Public Domain, that is, without any restrictions (See Creative Commons for details).

Using material from Patholines

Patholines is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license, which means that, for all Patholines material, including images, you are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Taking the article Basal-cell carcinoma as example, the wording of such attribution may be as follows, or variants thereof:

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

  • You are allowed to assign a more restrictive license to your work as a whole, but not specifically claim that any integrated content from Patholines has a more restrictive license.
Further legal information: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license

Licensing of content under CC-BY without further restrictions allows Patholines material to be used by almost all medical journals, since this is the most common licensing of at least open access journals.[1]

While no material in Patholines has a licensing more stringent than CC-BY 4.0, many images are Public Domain, that is, without any restrictions (See Creative Commons for details). The status of each image is seen on its description page (found by clicking the image). Furthermore, as per U.S. copyright laws, tables and graphs are not copyrightable unless they have some artistic, literary or other copyrightable aspect.[2]

Scary FBI logos like this are often copy-pasted into works, together with threatening text, but this does not change your copyrights.[image 1]

This resource is published under U.S. jurisdiction, and the United States copyright law holds that "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.",[3][4] and hence, for any scholarly pathology text that is published in the United States that does not involve any significant artistic or poetic innovation, you can most definitely use it as Public Domain, and defend such usage by stating that it describes anatomical, physiological and pathological processes and systems (regardless of how many copyright tags or FBI logos are displayed therein). Hence, in practice, the attribution as per above when using material from Patholines is a polite request rather than a legal requirement.

Copyright for authors

For all publications, authors at Patholines retain copyright (but allow sharing and reuse as per the license). Authors may thereby choose at a later time to use a less restrictive license, such as making a CC-BY work Public Domain.

Importing works to Patholines

For any material within a work that is not available under a license permitted in Patholines, as per table below, authors must gain written consent from the copyright holder(s) to publish the work under a permitted license.

Icon Description Acronym Permitted in Patholines
CC0 icon Freeing content into the Public Domain, without restrictions CC0 Yes
CC-BY icon Attribution alone CC-BY Yes, as long as the source page and/or author is attributed, such as by a Reference. Image creators are attributed at the image description pages that shows when clicking on them.
CC-BY-SA icon Attribution + ShareAlike CC-BY-SA No
CC-by-NC icon Attribution + Noncommercial CC-BY-NC No
CC-BY-ND icon Attribution + NoDerivatives CC-BY-ND No
Further information about the licenses at Creative Commons: About The Licenses

Also make sure to integrate imported content to fit Patholines:Editorial guidelines.

To/from Wikipedia

All content in Patholines can be copied to Wikipedia as long as appropriate attribution is made. For article text, such attribution can practically be made as a mention in the Edit summary, mentioning the Patholines article author(s) and the URL of the Patholines article.

The other way around, Wikipedia images (as well as images from Wikimedia Commons) that have a compatible license can be used in Patholines. However, because the text in Wikipedia articles is licensed under a Attribution + ShareAlike license, Wikipedia text cannot be directly copied to Patholines. Similarly, Wikipedia images released under a ShareAlike license can only be used with written permission from the author to have it published under CC BY or CC0. A response by private email is generally sufficient for this purpose. It is even more beneficial if the author agrees to change the license of the work at Wikipedia, such as changing the licensing template to {{Cc-by-4.0}} on image description pages.[note 1]

Plagiarism

Works uploaded to Patholines must not contain plagiarised material, unless legally permitted by the license or other legislation that covers the material at hand, or with permission of the copyright holder. This includes:

  • Text, images, or data that is copied from any other source
  • Ideas, concepts, or analysis from any other source
  • Material that is copied from the authors' own published works and without agreement of the editor or publisher of that work

Notes

  1. If you want even more rigorous proof that the author approves of the licensing of a work, the author may store a permission note in the release generator of Wikimedia: https://tools.wmflabs.org/relgen/

Main page

References

  1. . Search by Journal license. Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved on 2018-12-19.
  2. . Copyrightability of Tables, Charts and Graphs. Deep Blue Repositories, University of Michigan Library. Retrieved on 2022-01-07.
  3. . Copyright Law OF THE United States and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. U.S. Copyright Office. May 2021
  4. . 17 U.S. Code § 102 - Subject matter of copyright: In general. Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute. Retrieved on 2022-01-11.

Image sources

  1. This image is in the public domain in the United States because it is a derivative ("FBI anti-piracy warning" replaced with "scary FBI logo") of a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.