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All articles published in "Studia Prawnicze / Legal Studies" since 2018 No. 4 are published 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.

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.

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

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.

Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions to the articles published in "Studia Prawnicze / Legal Studies".

Authors of articles published in older issues of the journal "Studia Prawnicze / this LicenceLegal Studies", who are interested in making the article (s) available online under an open license, are pleased contact the INP PAN Publishing House (wydawnictwo@inp.pan.pl).

Authors of articles published in "Studia Prawnicze / Legal Studies" are permitted to self-archive the submitted (preprint) version of the article at any time, and may self-archive the accepted (peer-reviewed) version after an embargo period.

The submitted (preprint) version of an article is the author's version that has not been peer-reviewed, nor had any value added to it by Editorial Board of Studia Prawnicze (such as formatting or copy editing).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