Copyright

All the materials (including, but not limited to articles, text, images, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, or data, all also known as “Content”) published or available on the STiLE website are protected by copyright and owned by us, the authors or the party credited as the provider of the Content. All Content published by us is under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), meaning that anyone may download and read the contribution for free. We do not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website. In other words, all other rights are reserved. 

 

Contributor License

Copyleft

According to copyleft.org, Copyleft is a strategy of utilising copyright law to pursue the goal of fostering and encouraging the equal and inalienable right to copy, share, modify and improve creative works of authorship. If a copyleft licence is used, the covered work is allowed to be used, copied, modified and reproduced freely, which “creates something of a “chain” of free usage for subsequent users”.

 

Difference from Public Domain

According to legalmatch.com, when work is released into the public domain, often through free downloads online, there is nothing stopping the person who downloads it from completely altering the work beyond recognition and “presenting a different program from what was originally intended”. Therefore, “copyleft provisions serve to preserve programs while allowing them to be distributed”.

 

Your Responsibilities as an Author 

Copyright and intellectual property issues are a part of the fabric of research and scholarly communication; thus, STiLE takes copyright and originality seriously. You are advised to provide full credit for the source (paper, music, or image) of the third party and clear references of the copyright holder, whether or not you have sought permission. This shows that the work is copyrighted (or licensed under Creative Commons) and gives the creator the recognition they are entitled to.

If you are the copyright holder of the submission contents, you should warrant that your contribution is original, that it contains no libelous statements, and that it does not infringe on any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory right, or propriety rights of others. You have to accept responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors.

If a third party is the copyright holder or exclusive licensee of rights in any material in the submitted work, you must seek and obtain permission for re-use, and credit the material in accordance with the permission grant. You should be aware that if it is not made clear that the material has been published before, duplicate publication can result in infringement and/or an ethical breach.

 

Your Choice as an Author

Open Access on STiLE

STiLE publishes fully open access papers and teaching materials, which means that all contents are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication with no article processing charges (APCs). Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author / Copyright-holder and the STiLE are properly credited. All articles in all journals are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 

STiLE defines open access by the following conditions:

  • Literature is freely available without subscription or price barriers,
  • Literature is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), and
  • Published material can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given.

All content published by STiLE is under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works 4.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). These licenses allow you to use content and share it with others, with appropriate credit, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

Below are the details of the STiLE Contributor License: 

Read, print and download

Redistribute or republish the article (e.g., display in a repository)

Translate the article

Download for text and data mining purposes

Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works

Sell or re-use for commercial purposes

Yes

No 

Yes

(For private use only and not for distribution)

Yes

Yes

No

Please note: Under the CC BY-NC-ND license permitted 3rd party reuse is only applicable for non-commercial purposes.

If you do not agree with STiLE Contributor License, please feel free to contact info@stile.hk.

 

Enforcement of copyright

If you become aware of any use of STiLE’s copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, or if you become aware of any material on the STiLE website that you believe infringes your or any other person’s copyright, please report this by email to info@stile.hk.