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Licence Granted to the Journal

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What CC BY 4.0 Permits

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•     Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, for any purpose, including commercially.

•     Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially.

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Author Rights

Because authors retain copyright and the work is licensed under CC BY 4.0, authors are free, without seeking permission from the journal, to: reuse their own published material (in whole or in part) in future works, including teaching materials and books; deposit any version of the manuscript in institutional or subject repositories at any time, with no embargo (see Archiving Policy); and share the published article freely on personal or academic websites and social media.

Third-Party Reuse

Because the published article is openly licensed, third parties do not need to request permission from the journal to reuse it in line with the CC BY 4.0 terms; they need only provide appropriate attribution. Requests for uses that fall outside the scope of CC BY 4.0 (which is rare, given its permissive terms) should be directed to the corresponding author, as the rights holder.

Third-Party Material Within a Manuscript

Authors are responsible for obtaining, prior to submission, any permissions required to reproduce material from other copyrighted sources (e.g., long quotations, figures, images, or corpus excerpts subject to third-party licensing restrictions), and for providing appropriate credit to the original source within the manuscript.