Copyright and License

The <permissions> element within <article-meta> contains copyright and license information, including the copyright line that may need to appear in the PDF. The elements in <permissions> should be populated to match the copyright line in the article PDF. These elements are summarized as follows:

<copyright-statement>
This should hold the complete copyright statement, exactly as shown on the PDF. For example: 
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; Taylor &amp; Francis Group, LLC</copyright-statement>
The complete copyright line should be captured as required by the article's copyright status and journal style, including "Copyright" or the copyright symbol if present. The <copyright-statement> element should be omitted if the PDF does not have a copyright line.
In cases where an additional copyright statement must appear in the opening page footnote (separate from the copyright line), the additional copyright statement should be tagged using a content-type attribute set to "description". For example: <copyright-statement content-type="description">.
<copyright-year>
This should hold the year included in the copyright-statement. If no year is included in the copyright statement-statement, this element can be omitted.
<copyright-holder>
This element is required and should hold the name of the copyright holder named in <copyright-statement>. The <copyright-holder> element should be populated as follows:
Code <copyright-holder> as... when...
"Taylor &amp; Francis" the copyright statement indicates copyright is held by Taylor & Francis (including variations such as Taylor & Francis Group, LLC).
"None" the copyright statement indicates the article is not subject to copyright.
"The Author(s)" the copyright statement indicates copyright is held by the authors. This is the default for Open Access content.
the name that appears in the copyright statement the copyright statement indicates the name of the organization that holds copyright.
<license>
For Open Access content this should always include a license-type attribute with the value "open-access". If an article is published using a CC BY, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND license, the Production Editor will confirm which license statement should be used, and consequently which xlink:href attribute value should be included (see examples below). For articles with complimentary free access the license-type attribute may be set to "free" (see the example below).
<license-p>
This should be used to capture the license statement when either a CC BY, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND license is being used, and should include an appropriately populated <ext-link> element, as per the examples below.

Of the above elements, only <copyright-holder> is required. When a copyright statement, copyright year, or license information is not available the elements for this information should be omitted; these elements should only be populated if the correct values are known.

Examples

Note: The examples below are general guidelines for tagging. Individual journals or articles may have specific requirements. Please contact the journals' production editor or electronic production contact if clarification is needed.

Publisher holds copyright

Most articles published by Taylor & Francis are in this category. The copyright line would indicate Taylor & Francis as the publisher using the style for the journal. A copyright line such as "Copyright © Taylor and Francis Group, LLC" should be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; Taylor &amp; Francis Group, LLC</copyright-statement>
<copyright-holder>Taylor &amp; Francis</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

A copyright line such as "© 2013 Taylor & Francis" should be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&#xa9; 2013 Taylor &amp; Francis</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Taylor &amp; Francis</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

Society holds copyright

Articles in a society owned journal may have the society as the copyright holder. For example, in an article where copyright is held by Società Botanica Italiana the copyright line may read "© 2013 Società Botanica Italiana". This should be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&copy; 2013 Societ&agrave; Botanica Italiana</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Societ&agrave; Botanica Italiana</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

Author holds copyright

For UK and non-US journals, the copyright line should indicate copyright is held by the authors and the article is published by Taylor & Francis. The copyright line and rights holder should be tagged like this example (amend year appropriate):

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&#xa9; 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor &amp; Francis.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

For US journals, the copyright line should be "Published with license by Taylor & Francis" and a footnote on the opening page should list the names of the copyright holders. 

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Published with license by Taylor &amp; Francis</copyright-statement>
<copyright-statement content-type="description">&#xa9; William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon</copyright-statement>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

No copyright

For articles that are not subject to copyright (for example, articles created for the U.S. government) the copyright line should not have the copyright symbol or indicate that "Copyright" is assigned. The copyright line should be tagged using the journals' style for non-copyrighted works. For example: 

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>This article not subject to United States copyright law.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-holder>None</copyright-holder>
</permissions>

Open Access with CC BY License

Content that is published as Open Access need a <license> element with a license-type="open-access" attribute, and will have a license statement and an accompanying license URL in addition to the copyright line. For an Open Access article with a CC BY license the <permissions> element may be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&#xa9; 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor &amp; Francis.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>

Open Access with CC BY-NC License

Similar to the above example, for an Open Access article with a CC BY-NC license the <permissions> element may be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&#xa9; 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor &amp; Francis.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>

Open Access with CC BY-NC-ND License

Similar to the above example, for an Open Access article with a CC BY-NC-ND license the <permissions> element may be tagged as:

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>&#xa9; 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor &amp; Francis.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>

Complimentary Free

Articles that are designated to be complimentary free online may have <license license-type="free"> tagged within the <permission> element. This is primarily used with article types Erratum, Corrigendum, and Retraction. For example:

<license license-type="free"><license-p/></license>