1. Collective work and the Publisher’s rights

1. “Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne” (“OSAP”) is a collective work within the meaning of the Polish Act on Copyright and Related Rights.
2. The Publisher holds economic (property) copyrights in the elements of the collective work, in particular: the issue layout, selection and composition of content, the title of the journal and of each issue, visual identity (layout, graphic design, typesetting, typography), and the layout of the issue’s web pages.

2. Authors’ rights to articles

1. Authors retain the moral rights to their articles.
2. The economic (property) copyrights to the articles remain with the Authors; however, upon acceptance of an article for publication, the Authors grant the Publisher a non-exclusive, royalty-free, territorially unlimited licence for the following fields of exploitation:
   1. fixation and reproduction by any technique (print, digital),
   2. making the work publicly available in such a way that anyone may access it at a place and time of their choosing (including on the journal’s website, in repositories and indexing databases),
   3. placing copies on the market, renting and lending them,
   4. archiving, making backup copies, and carrying out technical migrations,
   5. performing necessary editorial and technical adaptations (proofreading, formatting, metadata) — which do not constitute derivative works within the meaning of the CC BY-NC-ND licence.
3. The licence is granted for an indefinite term, with the right to further make the work available as part of the journal’s distribution and indexing.
4. Upon publication, the Author grants a public licence to the published version of the article: Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
5. The Publisher is authorised to label the article with the indicated licence and to include the appropriate licence notice.

3. Licence for Readers

1. Unless otherwise indicated for a given article, texts published in OSAP are made available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
2. This licence permits non-commercial copying and distribution of the unmodified work, provided a full citation is given (author, title, OSAP, year, volume/issue, pages, DOI/URL).
3. The creation and distribution of derivative works (translations, adaptations, modifications), as well as any commercial use, requires separate permission from the rightsholders.

4. Originality policy and preprints/postprints

1. OSAP accepts only works that have not been previously disseminated (original works).
2. Before publication, the Author does not publicly share the version submitted to OSAP (preprint/postprint) nor the accepted version.
3. After publication, the Author may:
   • share the Version of Record in an institutional or personal repository without changes, with a full citation and a link/DOI to the OSAP version;
   • not introduce any modifications to the content.
4. If the Author wishes to share a translation or any other modified version, prior consent must be obtained from the rightsholders (co-authors, third-party rights holders).

5. “Other materials” and permitted use

1. “Other materials” are understood as content not expressly marked with a CC licence, in particular: elements of the issue layout, graphic design/layout, photographs, illustrations, charts, graphics and tables obtained under separate licences where no CC licence is indicated for them.
2. “Other materials” may be used only within the scope of permitted use under Articles 23–35 of the Polish Act on Copyright and Related Rights (including the right of quotation with indication of the source and author), unless separate permission has been obtained from the rightsholders.

6. Identifiers and versions

1. Each article is assigned a DOI and is clearly marked with its licence and version (Version of Record).
2. For third-party materials used in an article, the Author warrants having the necessary permissions/licences and indicates their legal status in the footnotes.

More details about the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence can be found at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

The full licence text is available at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.en