Sunday, January 18, 2026

Copyright transfer clause: blacklisted countries

Here's something I hadn't encountered before, in the copyright transfer form of a prominent international transplant journal:

"6. TRADE COMPLIANCE: Each author warrants that if the author, any of the author’s coauthors or any other individual whose content is included in the Work resides in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Crimea, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) regions of the Ukraine, the Work has been prepared in a personal, academic, or research capacity and not as an official representative or otherwise on behalf of the relevant government" 

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