Article 1:

The purpose of Gas Turbine Society of Japan Copyright Regulations (hereinafter, the “Regulations”) is to make arrangements regarding the handling of copyright related to compilations that are created by the Gas Turbine Society of Japan (hereinafter, the “Society”), and individual works that form part of the compilations (hereinafter “individual works”).

Article 2:

1. The copyright (including the rights stipulated in Articles 27 and 28 of the Copyright Act of Japan) of the individual works and compilations that have been created by the Society shall belong to the Society, regardless of whether they have been made in Japan or overseas, provided, however that the copyright of papers to be published in the International Journal of Gas Turbine, Propulsion and Power Systems (hereinafter “JGPP”) after January 1, 2021 shall belong to the author of each paper. The paper in question shall be, in principle, published under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the authors mentioned in the preceding paragraph can choose any kind of Creative Commons license, such as “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives” (CC, BY-NC-ND), for their papers published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021. Note that the copyright of the papers published in the JGPP before December 31, 2020 shall belong to the Society.
3. Among the individual works that form part of a Society Journal, which is one of the Society’s compilations, advertisements are not subject to Paragraph 1.

Article 3:

1. If an author him/herself or a corporation or the like to which the author belongs intends to use the full text or part of an individual work created by the author, such as a report or a paper, by reproducing, translating, adapting, or releasing it in other forms, the Society shall in principle not preclude such action, provided, however that the author him/herself shall obtain authorization in writing from the Society if the author uses the full text of the indivisual work in the form of reproduction in another work.
2. The author of an individual work shall not exercise the moral rights of an author against the Society or a person who has obtained authorization to exploit the individual work from the Society.
3. Application to the Society for authorization to exploit an individual work shall be exempted only when the author him/herself intends to archive his/her paper or presentation materials or the like in an electronic library of an organization to which the author belongs to (e.g., a university, company, or research institution) or publish it via the Internet within the organization.
4. Notwithstanding the preceding three paragraphs, the authors of the papers that are published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021 shall permit the exploitation of their works in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Users of such papers shall not be required to apply to the authors or the Society for authorization to exploit the work.
5. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs from 1 to 4, if the authors of the papers that are published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021, choose a Creative Commons license other than CC BY, the exploitation of such papers shall follow the conditions provided in the corresponding Creative Commons license.
6. Irrespective of the application of the Creative Commons license mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, the Society shall have the right to exploit the papers that are published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021 in the forms provided in the Copyright Act of Japan, such as by reproduction, recitation, transfer, renting-out, translation, adaption, transmission to the public, and the like.

Article 4:

1. In the event of occurrence of copyright infringement, defamation of character, or other disputes concerning individual works, the Society and the authors or the corporations to which the authors belong shall discuss and strive to resolve the problem, provided, however that, the Society shall not be liable for any dispute for papers whose exploitation under the Creative Commons license has been permitted in the provisions of the preceding Paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 3. The authors and the users of the papers in question shall resolve the dispute.
2. If a manuscript contains any third party’s works, the author of the paper that is published in the JGPP shall represent and warrant that he/she has quoted the third party’s work in question legally, or he/she has obtained authorization for exploitation of the work from the copyright owner of the work.

Article 5:

When the Society and another academic society or the like cooperate in business activity, if they have agreed to provide special arrangements for collecting papers or articles for such activity, the special arrangements supersede Regulations.

Article 6:

Concerning the works for which the Society had obtained the copyright before Regulations have come into force, unless otherwise there is a special offer from the author, and the Society finds that there is a justifiable reason for the offer, the provisions in each paragraph of Regulations shall apply mutatis mutandis, including the ownership of the copyright of individual works to the Society as stipulated in Paragraph 1 of Article 2.