1. Author Ownership and Retention of Rights

In accordance with global open-access best practices, TSUJCMS operates a mandate that prioritises author ownership.

· Copyright Retention: Authors retain unrestricted copyright and full, uncompromised publishing rights for their manuscripts. Unlike traditional publishing models, authors do not transfer ownership or sign away their intellectual property rights to the journal or the university.

· Licence Grant: Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors grant TSUJCMS a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide licence to publish, archive, index, and electronically distribute the work in all current and future formats (print, digital, and repository databases).

2. Open Access Licensing Framework (Creative Commons)

To ensure the widest possible dissemination, global discoverability, and legal clarity of research outputs, all articles published by TSUJCMS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Under this international legal framework, readers and the public are permitted to copy, download, print, stream, and redistribute the material in any medium or format. These permissions are granted subject to the strict condition that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and TSUJCMS, a direct link to the CC BY 4.0 licence is provided, and any changes made to the original text are clearly indicated.

3. Self-Archiving and Institutional Repositories (Green Open Access)

TSUJCMS fully supports the global movement toward institutional and open-access data preservation. Authors retain the absolute right to self-archive and distribute all versions of their work without any embargo periods:

· Preprints: Authors can post their initial, un-reviewed preprint versions to personal web pages, commercial repositories, or pre-publication servers at any time.

· Postprints: Authors can upload their accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript versions to university repositories immediately upon formal editorial acceptance.

· Version of Record: Authors are highly encouraged to upload the final, publisher-formatted PDF (the Version of Record) to global academic repositories (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SSRN) and institutional servers immediately upon publication, ensuring it links back to the official journal URL or Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

4. Third-Party Copyright and Permissions

· Author Responsibility: Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that any third-party materials included within their manuscript (such as extended text quotations, photographs, illustrative figures, maps, or dataset matrices) do not infringe upon existing copyrights.

· Clearance: Written permission from the original copyright holder must be secured by the author and submitted to the TSUJCMS editorial desk prior to publication for any copyrighted material not owned by the authors.

5. Copyright Infringement Claims (Plagiarism and Dispute Resolution)

TSUJCMS takes allegations of copyright infringement, ideas theft, and plagiarism very seriously. If an instance of copyright infringement or academic malpractice is brought to light:

· The Editorial Board will initiate an investigation following COPE guidelines.

· If a published article is proven to violate third-party copyrights or involve data fraud, the journal will immediately issue a formal Retraction Notice, permanently watermarking the archived article to maintain the absolute transparency of the scientific record.