Copyright, Licensing and IP

Payment of royalties

APESA is a member of the Copyright Agency. This allows us to collect licence fees on your behalf and distribute them to you as consideration for your article's inclusion in libraries and databases in Australia and abroad, including full test databases such as Informit, EBSCO and Proquest. If you prefer to collect royalties yourself, this can be organised as well.

Authors retain copyright over their work

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which protects the use of some materials, including works of scholarship. In Australia it is regulated by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

In general, co-authors of journal articles are jointly the copyright owners of their work. If one of the authors is a staff member at a University, they should check whether the work is owned by themself or their employer. 

Licensing the work to APESA and readers

As a copyright owner, you are granted a number of exclusive rights to the reproduction, publishing, communication, performance, translation or broadcast of your work. You also have moral rights, which refer to your rights to have authorship attributed properly and not misleadingly. When you publish in Upsurge you keep the entirety of your copyright ownership without restrictions.

Authors will need to grant APESA some non-exclusive publishing rights. Such permission must be provided by all copyright owners of a work. It is the responsibility of the person submitting the work that this requirement is met, including copyright of images or art which is included in their submission. 

APESA uses Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) International Licence to inform readers of how published content can be used.