Copyright Policy

Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts is a journal with open access for all. There is no cost to view, download, copy, share, print, search, or link to the full text of any content. Authors retain their copyright and articles are published under a CC-BY-NC license, which means others can use them with attribution and for non-commercial purposes.

The copyright owner's permission is needed for anyone who wants to sell or distribute the content or create new works based on it, such as compilations or translations. Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts should be notified by the owners of the rights whenever they receive a request for permission. If the author(s) use parts of other works that are protected by copyright, they have to obtain written permission from the owners and acknowledge the source(s) in their article. As a condition of publication in Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts, all authors agree to the following terms of licensing/copyright ownership:

• First publication rights to original work accepted for publication are granted to Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts, but copyright for all work published in the journal is retained by the author(s)

• Works published in Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts will be distributed under a CC-BY-NC license. By granting a CC-BY-NC license to their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to non-commercial download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as the source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e. a complete bibliographic citation and link to the Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts website and material). No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use.

• Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts. Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their websites.

Preprint versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in Journal of Fine Arts: Visual Arts as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website. Authors are responsible for securing all the necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscripts. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript.