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Short Title

M.4-1 The legal relationship between author(s) and publisher(s) (rights holders) and the operating institution is governed in a formal agreement (granting of rights).

Source Documnent

DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services 2019

Source Document Link

https://doi.org/10.18452/21759

Publishing Organisation

DINI Working Group "Electronic Publishing"

Date of Publication

2020-08-21

Topic

Access/ integration

Addressed Stakeholders

data service providers

Keywords

legal, rights, agreement, policy

Text

The granting of rights is formalized in a license agreement or a depo-sit license. The copyright holders grant non-exclusive usage rights to the operators. Use of Creative Commons licenses is strongly recommended as they are the current de-facto standard. A deposit license is not necessary if the publication is under a free license that grants the necessary rights to the operator. These are mostly Open Definition-compliant licenses such as CC BY.