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Copywrite and Licensing

Copywrite and Licensing

The author(s) give permission for Yeditepe University to publish the intellectual work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. The authors own the copyright and full publication rights of their work published in Global Media Journal Turkish Edition (GMJ-TR) and their work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced, and adapted in any size and format except for commercial use, including remixing, transforming, and building upon the work, provided that proper attribution is given to the original work.

When submitting a manuscript of any type or format, the author(s) are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships that may bias or be found biased in the work. In this context, the author(s) are expected to declare that they accept the following points by signing the Copyright Agreement Form when submitting the manuscript:

  1. The manuscript submitted is his/her/their own original work and has not been plagiarized from any prior work;

  2. All authors participated in the work in a substantive way and are prepared to take public responsibility for the work;

  3. All authors have seen and approved the manuscript as submitted;

  4. The manuscript has not been published and is not being submitted or considered for publication elsewhere;

  5. The text, illustrations, and any other materials included in the manuscript do not infringe upon any existing copyright or other rights of anyone.

  6. Yeditepe University will publish the content under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license that gives permission to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format other than commercial purposes as well as remix, transform and build upon the material by providing appropriate credit to the original work.

  7. The Contributor(s) or, if applicable the Contributor’s Employer, retain(s) all proprietary rights in addition to copyright, patent rights.

  8. I/We indemnify Yeditepe University and the Editors of the Journals, and hold them harmless from any loss, expense or damage occasioned by a claim or suit by a third party for copyright infringement, or any suit arising out of any breach of the foregoing warranties as a result of publication of my/our article. I/We also warrant that the article contains no libelous or unlawful statements and does not contain material or instructions that might cause harm or injury.

If there is more than one author contributing to the study, the order of names submitted by these authors at the time of submission should be a joint decision of the authors. All authors are expected to indicate their name order on the Copyright Agreement Form and to declare any possible conflict of interest with the author contribution categories on the Author Form. 

GMJ-TR considers that potential conflicts of interest between its stakeholders will harm the ethics of scientific publication. For this reason, the journal defines obligations for all stakeholders in order to identify and prevent conflicts of interest.

All articles published by GMJ-TR (regardless of who funded the research) are published as open access and reuse is permitted in accordance with the terms of the CC BY-NC open access licence.