oxfam gb and taylor & francis

 

Guidance notes on copyright policy: devlopment in practice

 

The transfer of copyright is standard practice in serials and journals publishing. It is designed to facilitate the protection from copyright abuse for authors, editors, and publishers involved in the creation of a single copyright product composed of multiple contributions.

 

Taylor & Francis (the Journal Publisher) publishes Development in Practice (the Journal) on behalf of Oxfam GB (the Publisher). In common with the majority of journal publishers, be they commercial or non-profit, the Journal Publisher recommends that authors assign to the Publisher the copyright, in all forms, of articles accepted for publication in the Journal. Our rationale is as follows:

 

(i)            ownership of copyright by the Publisher ensures maximum international protection against infringement, libel, or plagiarism;

(ii)        it enables the Publisher to deal efficiently with requests from third parties to reproduce, reprint, or translate an article, or part of it, and in accordance with a general policy which is sensitive both to any relevant changes in international copyright law and to the general desirability of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge.

 

The Journal is also published in an electronic or digital edition. In addition to publication of an author’s article in conventional printed form, an author’s assignment of copyright also signifies an author’s agreement to its publication and/or storage electronically or digitally. The Journal Publisher or Publisher may also arrange to include an author’s article in electronic or digital document-delivery services and databases. The Publisher also licenses the publication of a series of books (Development in Practice Readers) based on articles from the Journal to Kumarian Press and the author’s assignment grants to the Publisher to right to license the inclusion of the author’s contribution in this series and in any subsequent translations to issue in any other forms.

 

 

 

Certain ‘moral rights’ were conferred on authors by the UK Copyright Act in 1988. In the UK, an author’s ‘right of paternity’, the right to be credited whenever the work is published (or performed or broadcast), requires that this right be asserted in writing. In assigning copyright an author is not forfeiting her or his other proprietary rights.

 

Nothing in the Copyright Transfer Agreement is intended to restrict an author’s rights as the Author, or in the case of work written by an author during the course of his or her employment, an author’s employer’s rights, to revise, adapt, prepare derivative works, present orally or otherwise make use of the contents of the article. For example, the Author retains the right to reproduce her or his own article in any volume of which the Author acts as editor or author, subject to acknowledgement and citation. As a courtesy, the Author should advise the Publisher of such reproduction, and acknowledge and cite the Journal as the original source of publication.

 

 

 

 

If copyright is held by the Author’s employer, for example, the British (Crown) or US Government, where there are no restrictions on access, the article will be shown as being in Crown or US Government Copyright. It is essential that authors ensure requisite licenses are secured from their employers before submitting an article for publication. The Author is also required to obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third-party owners of copyright for the use of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in her or his article and in the Journal.

 

If the article is not published in the Journal, the rights revert to the Author as original copyright holder

 

Photocopying Policy: A third party is free to make one copy of an article for the purposes of private study or research without seeking the permission of the Publisher or the Author. Oxfam GB and Taylor & Francis participate in a number of copying licensing schemes which exist in many countries for the purposes of private study or research, as coordinated by the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFFRO), for example, the Copyright Licensing Agency (UK) and Copyright Clearance Center (USA), non-profit-making organisations which offer centralised licensing arrangements for photocopying or digital copying. Unlicensed multiple copying without permission is illegal.