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As the author of a work, you are the copyright owner unless or until you transfer your copyright to someone else in a signed agreement.
If you have assigned or licensed copyright in your research to someone else, this may affect how you can share your research. For example, assigning your copyright unreservedly to a publisher may mean that only the publisher will be able to reproduce, publish, communicate, perform or adapt your work - thus preventing you from re-using or distributing your work without publisher permission.
Therefore, before you sign, scrutinise your agreement and consider:
If you have included content where the copyright is owned by someone other than yourself (e.g. diagram, text, photograph) or you share copyright ownership with your co-authors, you do not necessarily have the right to re-use that material without first seeking permission.
For information about Publishing, including Open Access Publishing, refer to the Library's Publishing Guide.
For information about how copyright applies to your thesis, refer to the Library's Thesis Guide.
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