Copyright is a right attached to an original work. Copyright for a work expires 70 years after the author's death. After the 70 years, the rules of droit moral apply, which means that the author is still entitled to be credited when the work is used and that the work must not be used in an offensive way.
Copyright generally belongs to you as a researcher, unless otherwise agreed between you and the Royal Academy. When publishing, you must pay attention to whether you assign your copyright to the publisher. This has implications for your right to parallel publication, e.g. in connection with the publication of a Ph.D. thesis or for publication via Pure and the publication list on your researcher profile, use of your material in teaching, etc.
Many researchers publish their research results through a publisher with whom a contract is entered into. Often it is stated in the contract that the publisher takes over all rights to an article or a book. Thereby, an exclusive agreement has been entered into, in which the author waives all financial rights. The moral or ideal rights, on the other hand, cannot be transferred.
If an exclusive agreement exists, the author must ask the publisher for permission to publish his article on his own or the institution's website. The same applies if, for example, the author wants to publish an article as part of another work or with another publisher.
When you, as the author, sign an agreement, it can be difficult to see what should actually be in the agreement.
That is why the UVBA has prepared some model agreements. These are proposals for how, in UBVA's opinion, agreements should look before UBVA can recommend authors to sign them.
The Copyright Act §23 (in danish) allows the use of copyrighted material in scientific papers.
PhD dissertations at the Royal Academy are covered by this section and you may therefore reproduce images and edited text in your dissertation without prior agreement with the copyright holder - you must, however, always credit.
If you have created a work yourself - it can be a text, a picture, a PowerPoint presentation, a video etc. and want to share it with others without them having to ask you for permission, a Creative Commons license can be a solution.
Creative Commons is a standardized method for marking the extent to which one accepts that one's work is used, shared and copied.
Creative Commons license lets you tailor your copyright to your work as you wish. Once you, as an author, have assigned your work a CC license, you cannot change the conditions. This means that one cannot later create another license for the same work, so consider carefully what you want others to be able to do with your work.
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