Copyright

Polish Yearbook of International Law  is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.

Before publishing a text in PYIL, the author is required to sign a licence agreement on the basis of which he/she will CC-BY non-exclusive licence all copyrights in the submission to the ILS PAS (as the Publisher).

See: Licence agreement.

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Open Access Statement

1.1. The Author declares that (s)he holds an unlimited proprietary copyright to the submitted article (the “Work”). The author also declares that the Work is of an original character and has not been published before.

1.2. The Author declares that (s)he is entitled to grant a non-exclusive license to the Publisher, as provided in the licence agreement, and that the use of the Work by the Publisher, as provided in such an Agreement, does not violate any personal or other rights of any third party.

2.1. The Author grants the Publisher a non-exclusive licence to use the Work in the following fields:

1. a) preparation, fixation and reproduction of the Work;
2. b) reproduction, transmission and distribution of the Work, either for free or in exchange for remuneration, as a part of a print or electronic version of the PYIL, in whole or part, on CD, magnetic, optical, or any other form of electronic media, including electronic transmission to on-line terminals and computer networks for searching, displaying, and printing.

2.2. The Author gives his/her consent to the reproduction, transmission, and distribution of bibliographic abstracts and/or citations and abstracts of the Work and indexes prepared by the Publisher or already published in the PYIL, and authorises the Publisher, or any entity that will receive a sublicense, as referred to in paragraph 2(4), to use such bibliographic abstracts, and/or citations and abstracts of the Work and indexes.

2.3. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

3.1. All articles published in the PYIL are published on the PYIL’s webpage and in journal databases and in the repository of the ILS PAN e-Legal Library under the CC-BY open license. By submitting a publishing proposal, the authors agree to grant a free, non-exclusive and territorially unlimited CC-BY 4.0 PL license, if the article will be accepted for publication in the biannual journal. The license is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

3.2. The license allows without restrictions on the purpose (also commercial):

• sharing — copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format;
• adapting — remixing, transforming, and building upon the licenced material other adapted material.

3.3. The condition for using the CC-BY license is:

• attribution (recognition of authorship) — the work should be properly marked, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use;
• no additional restrictions — it schould not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

4.1. The licence, which is referred to in paragraph 2(1) is granted for the whole period of proprietary copyright to the Work. The Publisher and the Author may each terminate the licence agreement after the lapse of a ten-year period from the date of its conclusion, subject to a one-year termination notice, to take effect at the end of the calendar year following the year in which such notice is given.

4.2. The Publisher shall be entitled to grant further licences (sublicenses) to use the Work as provided in paragraphs 2(1) and (2), both to national and foreign entities.

4.3. The Author shall receive a copy of the electronic version of the Work and one copy of the issue of the Yearbook in which the Work is published.

4.4. In case of subsequent publication by the Author of the Work or another work which is substantially similar to the Work in any other journal or as a part of a collective work or any other type of publication, including electronic publications, the Author shall be obliged to indicate in a visible manner information about the prior publication of the Work in a specific issue of the PYIL.

5. The Author shall not receive any remuneration for the license, which is referred to in paragraph 2.

6. On the basis of Art. 21(1) and in connection with Art. 21(2) of the Polish Act of 4 February 1994 on copyrights and related rights, the Author waives his or her rights to the intermediation of any organization of collective management of copyrights.

7. The licence agreement shall be governed by Polish law. Any dispute arising from this Agreement shall be decided by the appropriate court(s) determined on the basis of the seat of the Publisher.

8. The National Library (CBN Polona) provides permanent archiving of the digital content of the scientific journals.

 

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

The submitted (preprint) version of an article is the author's version that has not been peer-reviewed, nor had any value added to it by Editorial Board of Polish Yearbook of International Law (such as formatting or copy editing).

The submitted version may be placed on:

• the author's personal website
• the author's company/institutional repository or archive
• not for profit subject-based preprint servers or repositories.

Self-archiving of the submitted version is not subject to an embargo period. We recommend including an acknowledgement of acceptance for publication and, following the final publication, authors may wish to include the following notice on the first page:

"This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [full cite], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI], available at CC-BY Licence."

The accepted (peer-reviewed) version of an article is the version that incorporates all amendments made during the peer review process, but prior to the final published version (the version of Record, which includes; copy and stylistic edits, online and print formatting, citation and other linking, deposit in abstracting and indexing services, and the addition of bibliographic and other material.

The accepted version may be placed on:

• the author's personal website
• the author's company/institutional repository or archive
• not for profit subject-based repositories such e-Biblioteka Prawnicza.

Articles may be deposited into repositories on acceptance without the embargo period.

The version posted must include the following notice on the first page:

"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [full cite], which has been published in final form at [link to final article using the DOI] in CC-BY Licence. This article may be used in accordance with this Licence (information above)."

Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to original/published version of record on the journal page.