All Works published by IntechOpen prior to October 2011 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-BC-SA 3.0). Works published after October 2011 up until 15 March 2024 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0). The Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license is applied to all works published after 15 March 2024, allowing for the broadest possible reuse of published material.
Translation Policy
All Works licensed under CC BY-BC-SA 3.0 can be freely translated and used for non-commercial purposes. Works licensed under CC BY 4.0 license can be freely translated and used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Book Chapters
All translated Chapters have to be properly attributed in accordance with the requirements included in IntechOpen's Attribution Policy. Besides proper attribution translated sections of Works must include the following sentence: "This is an unofficial translation of a work published by IntechOpen. The publisher has not endorsed this translation".
Books and all other compilations
All rights to Books and other compilations are reserved by IntechOpen. The copyright to Books and other compilations is subject to a Copyright separate from any that exists in the included Works.
A Book in its entirety, or a significant part of a Book, cannot be translated freely without specific written consent by the publisher. Requests for permission can be made at permissions@intechopen.com.
Policy last updated: 09 June 2016