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.

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. In particular, University of Sydney Staff should check the Intellectual Property Policy 2016, the Library's support page (UniKey login required), or submit an enquiry with copyright@sydney.edu.au.

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 the right of first publication and 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. The Managing Editors can assist with this if you are unsure.

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