Copyright and IFoA Sessional Content

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) - the Proprietor of the British Actuarial Journal -  is the copyright holder of all the following article types published by the journal:

• Sessional Papers
• Sessional Meeting Discussions
• Addresses by the President

The IFoA also holds the copyright of Contributed Papers that are authored by IFoA working groups and IFoA employees.

Authors of these article types do not need to complete a publishing agreement. The IFoA makes its own arrangements for the transfer of intellectual property rights from the appropriate parties to the IFoA for this content.

Contributed Papers

Authors (or in some cases their employers) of Contributed Papers that are published in BAJ - those that are submitted to and accepted for publication in the journal and are not authored by IFoA working groups - retain copyright and grant Cambridge University Press a non-exclusive license to publish their work. 

Authors must complete and return an author publishing agreement form as soon as their article has been accepted for publication; the journal is unable to publish without this. 

Publishing agreements are available below. Please make sure to select the appropriate form, which depends upon who owns the copyright.

For open access articles, the form also sets out the Creative Commons license under which the article is made available to end users: a fundamental principle of open access is that content should not simply be accessible but also should be freely re-usable. If no license is selected, then articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) by default. This means that the article is freely available to read, copy, and redistribute, and can also be adapted (users can “remix, transform, and build upon” the work) for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, as long as proper attribution is given. Authors can, in the publishing agreement form, choose a different kind of Creative Commons license (including those prohibiting non-commercial and derivative use) if they prefer.

WHO ARE YOU AND WHO OWNS THE COPYRIGHT?	CORRECT FORMS	WHO SIGNS?
I am the sole author and I own the copyright in the article OR I am one of two or more authors and we jointly own the copyright in the article		One author
I am the sole author and my employer (government or non-government) owns the copyright in the article OR I am one of two or more authors and one or more of our employers (government or non-government) jointly own the copyright in the article		Each author and each employer