I received the following email from our copyright office today. My initial thought is he can’t use it in the journal article, but I want to confirm this. Thank you.


Hi Heather,
 
A researcher with Geological Sciences named Jamal came in the other day to ask Kate some questions about a paper he would like to publish. We aren’t certain, but we think he wants to publish in a traditional (i.e., not open) geology journal.  He has pictures from five different sources he would like to include.  Four are third-party images from already published books are journal article. The last image is a creative commons image with a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
 
Because it is a CC share-alike licence, Kate would like to confirm with you if Jamal can use the image in the article if the entire article cannot be licenced CC BY-SA 4.0. Can the article be published with only the one image maintaining the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and the rest of the article have the standard “all rights reserved” copyright protection?
 
Thanks!
Shelby


Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning

Research Fellow
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