Copyright Policy

Justicia Journal is an open-access scholarly journal published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Darul Ulum, Jombang, Indonesia. The journal is committed to protecting authors’ intellectual property rights while promoting the broad dissemination, accessibility, and responsible reuse of legal scholarship.

By submitting a manuscript to Justicia Journal, authors agree to the terms and conditions stated in this Copyright Policy. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant Justicia Journal the right of first publication.

1. Author Copyright

Authors who publish their articles in Justicia Journal retain the copyright of their articles. Authors retain all proprietary rights other than copyright, including patent rights, moral rights, and the right to use all or part of the article in future works.

Authors grant Justicia Journal the right of first publication of the manuscript. This right allows the journal to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and make the article publicly available in electronic and printed formats, where applicable.

2. Publication License

Articles published in Justicia Journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, users are permitted to:

Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

Users must comply with the following license terms:

Attribution: Users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s), provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes were made.
ShareAlike: If users remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute their contributions under the same license as the original.

The CC BY-SA 4.0 license supports open access while ensuring that authorship and the initial publication in Justicia Journal are properly acknowledged.

3. Right of First Publication

Authors grant Justicia Journal the right of first publication of the accepted manuscript. This means that the article must not have been previously published in another journal or publication venue.

The right of first publication does not transfer the authors’ copyright to the journal. Authors remain the copyright holders of their work.

4. Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit their published articles in institutional repositories, personal websites, academic social networks, or other non-commercial repositories.

Authors must clearly acknowledge the initial publication in Justicia Journal by providing the following information:

Full citation of the published article.
Name of the journal: Justicia Journal.
Volume, issue, and publication year.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI), where available.
A link to the official article page on the Justicia Journal website.

Authors may also deposit preprint or postprint versions of their work online before and during the submission process, provided that such activity does not violate the journal’s publication ethics or copyright policy.

5. Non-Exclusive Distribution

Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work. Such arrangements may include publication in an edited book, inclusion in an institutional repository, or distribution through another scholarly platform.

Any such arrangement must acknowledge the initial publication of the work in Justicia Journal. Authors must ensure that the terms of any subsequent agreement do not conflict with the license granted to Justicia Journal.

6. Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use any third-party material included in their manuscripts, including but not limited to images, figures, tables, maps, photographs, datasets, and lengthy quotations.

Authors must ensure that the use of third-party materials complies with applicable copyright law, licensing requirements, and fair-use principles. Proper attribution must be provided for all third-party materials.

Justicia Journal is not responsible for any copyright infringement arising from the authors’ use of third-party materials.

7. Plagiarism and Originality

Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are original and free from plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and unauthorized use of third-party materials.

All sources, ideas, arguments, data, and quotations derived from other works must be properly cited and acknowledged. Manuscripts found to violate copyright or publication ethics may be rejected, retracted, or subject to further editorial action.

8. Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose the use of Artificial Intelligence or AI-assisted technologies in accordance with the Artificial Intelligence Policy of Justicia Journal.

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that the use of AI does not infringe copyright, violate licensing terms, or compromise the originality and integrity of the manuscript.

9. Editorial Rights

The Editorial Board reserves the right to make necessary editorial adjustments to accepted manuscripts, including copyediting, formatting, layout editing, and reference-style corrections, without changing the substantive meaning or scholarly argument of the work.

The Editorial Board may decline, retract, or correct an article where copyright infringement, plagiarism, ethical violations, or legal issues are identified.

10. Copyright Statement for Authors

Authors are required to include the following statement in the copyright agreement or submission declaration:

I/We hereby declare that the manuscript entitled “[Manuscript Title]” is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration by another journal. I/We retain the copyright of the work and grant Justicia Journal the right of first publication. The article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). I/We confirm that all third-party materials have been properly used and attributed, and that the manuscript complies with the publication ethics of Justicia Journal.

11. Policy Review

This Copyright Policy will be reviewed periodically by the Editorial Board of Justicia Journal to ensure alignment with developments in copyright law, open-access publishing, and scholarly communication practices.