Type of licensing and use of copyrighted material

By submitting an article to the editorial office of the "Martial arts" magazine, the authors agree to the following provisions:
  • Authors  retain copyright  to their work without restriction.
  • Authors grant the journal the right  of first publication of the work under a Creative Commons license.
All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This allows others to:
  • Copy and distribute  the material in any form or format.
  • Adapt and create derivative materials  (e.g., use your training methods for new research).
  • Mandatory condition: proper citation (authorship, article title, journal title, and DOI).

 

Use of copyright and intellectual property objects

The authors bear full responsibility for the legality of the use of any materials (texts, illustrations, photographs, tables, graphs, audio and video materials) that are protected by copyright and belong to third parties.
 
1. Requirements for illustrative material
  • Own materials:  The editorial board encourages the use of original photographs and diagrams created by the authors. In this case, the rights to them are transferred to the journal along with the text of the article under the terms of the  CC BY 4.0 license .
  • Third-party materials: If the author uses images (for example, photos from famous fights, footage from broadcasts, or diagrams from other people's monographs), he is required  to obtain written permission from the copyright holder to republish them.
  • Captions:  Each borrowed object must be indicated:  "Reproduced with permission from [Author's full name / Publication name]"  or a link to the type of open license (for example,  Pixabay License, CC0 ).
 
2. Citing texts
  • Reproduction of text fragments by other authors is permitted only to the extent justified by the scientific purpose, with the obligatory indication of the author and the original source.
  • Excessive quoting (more than 200 words from a single source) may be considered a copyright violation, even if a link is provided.
 
3. Using images of people (Athletes)
  • According to Article 308 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, a photograph or other artistic work depicting an individual may be published only with their consent.
  • Authors must ensure that  the athletes depicted in the photographs in the article have consented to their faces being published in a scientific publication.
 
4. Use of logos and trademarks
  • Images of trademarks (logos of equipment brands, federations) are allowed only for scientific and informational purposes. Use that has signs of hidden advertising is prohibited.
 
5. Responsibility and plagiarism
  • Using copyrighted material without permission is considered  academic plagiarism .
  • In the event of claims from third parties, responsibility (including financial) lies solely with the authors of the manuscript.