Copyright Notice & Licensing

Author Rights & Reuse

Copyright & Licensing

SaNa: Journal of Blockchain, NFTs and Metaverse Technology supports author ownership and the lawful reuse of published scholarly work. Authors retain copyright in their articles, while published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Copyright Ownership

Copyright remains with the authors of the published work.

Authors retain copyright in articles published by SaNa. Publication in the journal does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the journal or publisher.

By publishing with SaNa, authors authorize the journal and its publisher to publish, identify, distribute, preserve, and make the article publicly available as part of the journal's scholarly record.

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Creative Commons License

Published articles are distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Unless otherwise indicated for specific third-party material, articles published in SaNa are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, users may share the material by copying and redistributing it in any medium or format, and may adapt the material by remixing, transforming, and building upon it, including for commercial purposes.

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License Conditions

Reuse must comply with the attribution and ShareAlike requirements of CC BY-SA 4.0.

Attribution

Users must give appropriate credit to the author(s), provide appropriate source and license information, and indicate if changes were made.

ShareAlike

If users remix, transform, or build upon the licensed material, the resulting contribution must be distributed under the same license as the original.

No Additional Restrictions

Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from exercising the rights permitted by the license.

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Author Publishing Rights

Authors retain broad rights to use and disseminate their work.

Authors may reuse, distribute, share, and incorporate their published article into subsequent scholarly or educational work, subject to appropriate acknowledgment of its original publication in SaNa and the applicable CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Authors may also share their work through personal websites, institutional platforms, academic networks, repositories, and other lawful scholarly communication channels.

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Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit manuscript versions in appropriate repositories.

Authors are permitted to deposit their submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, and final published article in institutional, disciplinary, or other appropriate open repositories.

The final published version may be archived without an embargo period. When the published version is deposited, authors should acknowledge its original publication in SaNa and, where available, provide the article's DOI or a link to the journal version of record.

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Third-Party Material

Not all material contained within an article is necessarily covered by the article's Creative Commons license.

Authors are responsible for obtaining any permission required to reproduce copyrighted material owned by third parties, including figures, images, tables, datasets, or other content that is not available under terms permitting its intended use.

Where third-party material is subject to different licensing or reuse conditions, those conditions should be clearly identified. Users wishing to reuse such material are responsible for determining whether additional permission is required.

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Open Access & Licensing

Access policy and copyright licensing serve related but distinct purposes.

The journal's Open Access Policy describes how published articles are made freely and immediately accessible to readers.

This Copyright & Licensing Policy defines copyright ownership and the legal conditions governing reuse of those published works. Keeping these policies separate ensures that access rights and reuse rights are stated clearly and consistently.

Creative Commons License

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

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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