Licensing and Copyright

[fred-atherden]

Description

License and copyright details for the article.

User Stories

Author

1. As an author, I want to be able to see the license information for an article so that I can confirm the correct license is being used.

Production staff

2. As production staff, I want to be able to change the license information for an article so that I can switch the license if required.

But what if . . . ?

• At the end of the year the copyright year should be updated if the article is first published in the following year, however, the typesetter has provided the content to Texture and so their auto/validation steps will no longer be applied

Considerations

• License information usually consists of the copyright statement (copyright holder, copyright year) and the license paragraph (human readable description of the terms of the license), plus in many cases a URL associated with the license.
• However, under Public Domain licenses like CC0, there is no copyright holder or year (these articles are perforce free from copyright restrictions). Only the license paragraph and license link are required.
• eLife publishes two licenses, CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution License used for most articles and the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication used for articles produced by employees of the United States Government (e.g. NIH employees).
• Other publishers will need other license options.
• In most cases, it is expected that the license text will be boilerplate and not require manual editing. For eLife, this means that while the details for the copyright holder and year will change for each article (CCBY) or not exist at all (CCO), the text for each of the 2 license paragraphs will stay the same.
• At eLife, logic is applied to the copyright information during the production process:
  • One author, remove the et al from the <copyright-holder> text
  • Two authors remove the et al from the text but add "and" and second author surname.
  • The author et al text remains stable for papers with 3 or more authors and it's the first author's surname text
• Other publishers sometimes simply use 'The Authors' in place of a more specific copyright holder.
• ali:free_to_read tagging requires xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" namespace in the header XML (https://github.com/elifesciences/TextureRequirements/issues/1)
• At Érudit, the URI that points to the license must redirect to the text of the license in the language of the article. Example: If the article is in french: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr If the article is in english: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
• PKP and Érudit include a graphic element within license containing the CC-BY button image, e.g. https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-sa.svg or http://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png. Each button is tied to the license used, so this likely needs to be dealt with in configuration.

XML requirements

There is a JATS4R recommendation for this tagging: https://jats4r.org/permissions

Captured in article/front/article-meta/permissions CC-BY-4.0

<permissions>
     <copyright-statement>&#x00A9; 2019, Tobin et al</copyright-statement>
     <copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
     <copyright-holder>Tobin et al</copyright-holder>
     <ali:free_to_read/>
     <license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <ali:license_ref>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ali:license_ref>
          <license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
     </license>
</permissions>

CC0 licenses have no copyright, and so should be captured in the following way (or similar).

<permissions>
     <ali:free_to_read/>
     <license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"> 
          <ali:license_ref>http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</ali:license_ref>
          <license-p>This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication</ext-link>.
          </license-p>
     </license>
</permissions>

In the event that there are separate licenses for different languages, this should be captured using @xml:lang on the license element (@xml:lang is not allowed on license-p) in the permissions.

<permissions>
    <copyright-statement>Text © 2018 by the authors.</copyright-statement>
    <copyright-year>
        2018</copyright-year>
    <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" xml:lang="de">
        <license-p>
            <inline-graphic xlink:href="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-sa.svg"/>
            Dieses Werk ist unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)   veröffentlicht.</license-p>
    </license>
    <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
        <license-p>
            <inline-graphic xlink:href="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-sa.svg"/>
            This book is published under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (CC BY-SA  4.0).</license-p>
    </license>
</permissions>

Érudit examples: license needs to be optional for Érudit:

<!--  Copyright owned by the authors  -->
<permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright © Helen Fenwick and Gavin Phillipson, 2011</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
  <copyright-holder>Helen Fenwick and Gavin Phillipson</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
    
<!--  Copyright owned by the journal  -->
<permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright © McGill Law Journal, 2011</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year>
  <copyright-holder>McGill Law Journal</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

Érudit include the license logo in license-p (where possible):

<!--    Link to the license text and to the license button. Permission with a "license-p" element only    -->
<permissions>
  ...
  ...
  <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr">
    <license-p>
      <media xlink:href="http://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"/>
    </license-p>
 </license>
</permissions>

<!--    Link to the license text and to the license button. Permission with a "ali:license_ref" and a "license-p"    -->
<permissions>
  ...
  ...
  <license>
    <ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">
                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr</ali:license_ref>
    <license-p>
      <media  xlink:href="http://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"/>            
    </license-p>
  </license>
</permissions>

Mock ups

Proposal

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