Copyright, Permissions, and Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights and permissions to use third-party materials included in their manuscripts. This includes text, figures, tables, photographs, illustrations, recordings, datasets, and other copyrighted or restricted materials. Authors must provide appropriate acknowledgments and obtain permission where required.

The use of AI-generated or AI-modified materials does not remove the authors' responsibility to respect copyright, licensing, privacy, and other applicable rights.

The journal may request evidence of permission or authorization where necessary.