Policies

Copyright and licensing

Licence of published articles and authors' rights.

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At a glance

  • The licence is shown on every article and in its metadata.
  • Authors may share the published version anywhere with a citation.
  • Third-party material needs the owner's permission.
Copyright holder
The authors

This page explains who owns the rights in articles published in Journal Law and Justice and how others may use them. The licence that applies is shown on every article and in its metadata.

Authors' rights

  • Authors keep the rights described in the licence and grant Journal Law and Justice the right of first publication.
  • Authors may share the published version anywhere (institutional or subject repositories, personal websites, academic networks) with a full citation and a link to the article.
  • Authors may reuse their work in later publications such as books or theses, citing the original article.
  • Authors may enter into separate arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version, with an acknowledgement of first publication in this journal.

Readers' rights

Under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, anyone may share and adapt the work for any purpose, including commercially, provided they:

  • give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal,
  • link to the licence, and
  • indicate whether changes were made.

Licences with NonCommercial (NC), NoDerivatives (ND) or ShareAlike (SA) terms add the restrictions those terms describe.

Third-party material

Authors must obtain permission to reproduce figures, tables or text owned by others and state this in the caption. Material that cannot be licensed under the article's licence must be marked as such.

Licence statement

The licence is stated on the article page, in the PDF and in the article metadata, so that it is machine-readable by indexing services.

Journal-specific terms

1. License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

2. Author(s)' Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by the stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author, and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).

3. User Rights

Journal Law And Justice spirit is to disseminate articles published are as free as possible. Under the Creative Commons license, MJPJLJ permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. Users will also need to attribute authors and MJPJLJ to distributing works in the journal and other media of publications.

4. Rights of Authors

Authors retain all their rights to the published works, such as (but not limited to) the following rights;

  • Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
  • The right to use the substance of the article in own future works, including lectures and books,
  • The right to reproduce the article for own purposes,
  • The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

5. Co-Authorship

If the article was jointly prepared by more than one author, any authors submitting the manuscript warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to be agreed on this copyright and license notice (agreement) on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this policy. MJPJLJ will not be held liable for anything that may arise due to the author(s) internal dispute. MJPJLJ will only communicate with the corresponding author.

6. Royalties

Being an open accessed journal and disseminating articles for free under the Creative Commons license term mentioned, author(s) aware that MJPJLJ entitles the author(s) to no royalties or other fees.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Official references

This policy follows these published standards and guidelines. Each link opens the original source.