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Copyright law and exploitation rights
Declaration of consent
The rights holders affirm in a Declaration of Consent with a handwritten signature that:
Exploitation rights
In case of the online publication on the Digital Repository of Brandenburgische Technische Universität, the exploitation rights to the published work remain with the previous rights holder. This means that the exploitation rights will remain with the authors of the work. If the rights have been transferred to the publisher or the user of rights, they will stay with them.
The rights holder merely transfers the simple right of exploitation for online publication and the rights necessary for digital long-term preservation to the University Library.
Consequently, the authors retain the right for online or print publication elsewhere.
If you intend to publish your thesis with a commercial publisher, please make sure they agree with a parallel publication in the Digital Repository of the University Library. The consent of the publishing house must be obtained. You can check publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies via the Open policy finder.
The terms of German copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG) apply to documents which are made available via data networks in electronic form. They hold if and in so far as the author or respectively the rights holder has not declared special conditions by granting a Creative Commons licence.
According to § 53 of German copyright law, the reader is entitled to copy and print the published work for his own scientific or non-commercial use. Furthermore, the limiting provisions of copyright law apply ( §§ 44a - 63a UrhG).
A further utilisation presupposes the explicit, prior and written approval of the author or respectively the rights holder. The user is responsible for compliance with the legislation.
The rights holders affirm in a Declaration of Consent with a handwritten signature that:
- they transfer the simple and permanent right to publish the work on the internet to the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg as represented by the University Library
- the rights of third parties are not violated by the publication and the University Library is released from claims of third parties
- the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) may archive and possibly make the works publicly available via their servers
- the work may be converted into another format for reasons of archival storage or preservation
- that the work is equivalent to the work released for publication and identical to the print versions handed in simultaneously
Exploitation rights
In case of the online publication on the Digital Repository of Brandenburgische Technische Universität, the exploitation rights to the published work remain with the previous rights holder. This means that the exploitation rights will remain with the authors of the work. If the rights have been transferred to the publisher or the user of rights, they will stay with them.
The rights holder merely transfers the simple right of exploitation for online publication and the rights necessary for digital long-term preservation to the University Library.
Consequently, the authors retain the right for online or print publication elsewhere.
If you intend to publish your thesis with a commercial publisher, please make sure they agree with a parallel publication in the Digital Repository of the University Library. The consent of the publishing house must be obtained. You can check publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies via the Open policy finder.
The terms of German copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG) apply to documents which are made available via data networks in electronic form. They hold if and in so far as the author or respectively the rights holder has not declared special conditions by granting a Creative Commons licence.
According to § 53 of German copyright law, the reader is entitled to copy and print the published work for his own scientific or non-commercial use. Furthermore, the limiting provisions of copyright law apply ( §§ 44a - 63a UrhG).
A further utilisation presupposes the explicit, prior and written approval of the author or respectively the rights holder. The user is responsible for compliance with the legislation.
