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Authors retain copyright ownership of their submitted and published scholarly works. Transfer or assignment of copyright to JICE or its publisher is not a condition of publication.

By publishing in JICE, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right of first publication, together with permission necessary to publish, reproduce, distribute, make available online, archive, and preserve the article as part of the journal's scholarly record.

Authors are responsible for submitting original work and ensuring that their manuscripts do not infringe the intellectual property rights of others. They must secure any necessary permission or other lawful authorization before incorporating third-party materials.

Sharing, adaptation, attribution, and ShareAlike requirements.

Articles published under JICE's current licensing policy are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license permits broad reuse of licensed material, including for commercial purposes, provided its conditions are met.

Users must not apply additional legal terms or technological restrictions that prevent others from exercising rights granted by the license. Attribution must not suggest endorsement by the authors or JICE.

The Creative Commons license applies to material that the relevant rights holder has authorized for licensing. Separately identified third-party content may be subject to different copyright or reuse conditions.

Responsible reuse, self-archiving, and additional distribution.

Authors may reuse, share, teach with, and distribute their own published articles, consistent with the applicable article-level license and any third-party rights. They may also:

• Self-archive and disseminate. Deposit the published article in institutional repositories, research repositories, or personal academic websites, subject to applicable rights and licensing conditions.
• Use their work in subsequent scholarship. Reuse their own findings and content in later research, academic teaching, or scholarly publications, with appropriate acknowledgment of the original publication.
• Enter non-exclusive distribution arrangements. Agree to additional non-exclusive distribution of the published work, provided those arrangements respect the existing license and acknowledge first publication in JICE.

When redistributing a published article, authors should identify JICE as the original place of publication and provide the article citation or DOI, where available.

Permissions and clear identification of separately licensed content.

Authors must ensure that materials obtained from third parties are used legally and with appropriate attribution. Depending on the research, such material may include photographs, engineering drawings, site plans, maps, diagrams, tables, figures, survey data, or datasets.

Where necessary, authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder or rely on another applicable legal basis for the intended use. Permissions must cover the proposed manner of publication and distribution where required.

Third-party material that is not included in the article's CC BY-SA 4.0 license must be clearly identified through a credit line, copyright notice, or other appropriate statement specifying its separate rights or licensing status. Readers must observe those conditions before reusing such material.

Clear article-level terms and protection of previously granted licenses.

JICE seeks to display copyright ownership and the applicable reuse license clearly on its journal website and in published article files and metadata, as supported by the publishing system.

The license governing an individual article is the license assigned to that publication. Changes to the journal's current general copyright or open access policies do not automatically replace or revoke licensing terms previously applied to published articles.

Any future changes in the journal's copyright or licensing arrangements will be communicated transparently and implemented with due regard to existing author rights and publication agreements.

For related information on reader access and reuse, consult the Open Access Policy.