[jats-list] <permissions> versus <attrib> when reproducing previously published material

["Rhiannon Miller rhiannon.m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a query regarding the use of <permissions> and <attrib> when
reproducing previously published material.

JATS 1.2 has updated and expanded documentation on when the <permissions>
element should be used
(https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/1.2/element/permissions.html
). This is as a result of a request that I made to the JATS committee asking
for multiple <permissions> elements in <sec-meta>, to better record the
permissions of sections where part of the material is derived (but not
explicitly quoted) from a previously published article that has a different
copyright. This request resulted in the new documentation, which states that
<attrib>, not <permissions>, should be used for information reproduced from
another source.

I'm now not quite sure how to tag reproduced items at all. If <permissions> is
not to be used for document objects which have been reproduced from elsewhere
and therefore have different copyright licences, then what should it be used
for?

More importantly, if I am using <attrib> rather than <permissions> to tag a
document object reproduced from elsewhere, how do I denote that this object,
unlike the rest of the article, is not permitted to be reproduced? The
<attrib> element doesn't seem to capture this information.

For example, the article may be published under a CC-BY licence, but one
section may contain parts reproduced with permission from a previously
published article which has an "All rights reserved' copyright statement and
therefore should not be reproduced further.

Finally, this documentation doesn't seem to mesh with the JATS4R guidelines
(https://jats4r.org/permissions), which say 'If any object within the article
(for example, a figure or a table) has different permissions from the article
as a whole, <permissions> must be included in that element to ensure the
object does not inherit the permissions that apply to the document as a
whole.'

Any help breaking through the confusion would be much appreciated!

Thanks and best wishes

Rhiannon

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