Medical Writing Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Is anyone stealing your articles? Exploding copyright myths

Volume 21, Issue 4 - Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Is anyone stealing your articles? Exploding copyright myths

Author: Pippa Smart

Abstract

Management of intellectual property rights, and copyright in particular, is usually handled by publishers on behalf of authors. However, many authors are worried about assigning copyright to publishers and are unclear about what this implies. This article looks at some of the common misconceptions about copyright and explains the truth behind the myths.

Keywords: copyright, Plagiarism, authorship
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