25R1-02 (Rev. 3)

Gas Turbine Society of Japan
Copyright Regulations
Control number: 25R1-02 (Rev. 3)
Established: March 19, 2009
Revised: November 6, 2020

(Purpose)
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”).
(Ownership of copyright)
Article 2: 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 madein Japan or overseas, provided, however that the copyright of papers to be publishedin 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 theCreative 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 theSociety’s compilations, advertisements are not subject to Paragraph 1.
(Utilization of works/compilations)
Article 3: 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, suchas a report or a paper, by reproducing, translating, adapting, or releasing it in otherforms, the Society shall in principle not preclude such action, provided, howeverthat 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-1-25R1-02 (Rev. 3)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 theindividual 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 orpresentation 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 arepublished in the JGPP after January 1, 2021 shall permit the exploitation of theirworks 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 forauthorization to exploit the work.
5. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs from 1 to 4, if the authors of the papers thatare published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021, choose a Creative Commons licenseother 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 thepreceding two paragraphs, the Society shall have the right to exploit the papers thatare published in the JGPP after January 1, 2021 in the forms provided in theCopyright Act of Japan, such as by reproduction, recitation, transfer, renting-out,translation, adaption, transmission to the public, and the like.
(Authors’ responsibility)
Article 4: In the event of occurrence of copyright infringement, defamation of character, orother disputes concerning individual works, the Society and the authors or thecorporations to which the authors belong shall discuss and strive to resolve theproblem, provided, however that, the Society shall not be liable for any dispute forpapers 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 andthe 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 ispublished 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 exploitationof the work from the copyright owner of the work.
(Exceptions)
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activity, if they have agreed to provide special arrangements for collecting papers orarticles for such activity, the special arrangements supersede Regulations.
(Handling of currently published works)
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 theauthor, and the Society finds that there is a justifiable reason for the offer, theprovisions in each paragraph of Regulations shall apply mutatis mutandis, including
the ownership of the copyright of individual works to the Society as stipulated inParagraph 1 of Article 2.

This Regulations is subject to the law of Japan. In the event of discrepancies between
the Japanese text Regulations and English text Regulations, Japanese text shallcontrol over the English text.

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