Publication & Rights Policy

From Mind and Machine publishes human–AI collaborative work, and every contributor tells us which AI tools were used and how. We make reasonable efforts to confirm that those disclosures, and each submitter’s statements about authorship and originality, are honest. We cannot guarantee them, and we do not endorse any statement a contributor makes in a submission. We also review submissions for plagiarism and copying, including similarity to existing published work, and we do not publish work we have reason to believe is plagiarized or misrepresented. Where a contributor chose to share their process, it appears with the work; where they asked us to leave it out, we keep it on file for our records.

Contributors keep ownership of their work. We hold only the permissions the contributor grants on the submission form, which are non-exclusive; digital publication is the only required one. We do not claim ownership of any work. We also make no statement about whether any work, or any part of it, is protected by copyright, because the law on AI-assisted material is still developing. Contributors are responsible for how they describe AI use if they register a work with a copyright office. We do not endorse plagiarism, and we do not endorse falsehoods in a submission.

If you believe a published work infringes your copyright, defames you, exposes private information, or is misrepresented in its authorship or AI disclosure, please tell us through the contact page and choose “Copyright or content concern.” Please include: the title of the work and the page or link where it appears; what you believe is wrong, and for a copyright claim, the original work you say was copied and where it can be seen; your name and contact details; a statement that you are making the claim in good faith; and, for a copyright claim, a statement that you are the rights holder or are authorized to act for them. Claims that are incomplete may take longer to resolve, but we will still read them.

We take every credible claim seriously. While we review one, we may take the story offline. We tell the contributor what was claimed and give them the chance to respond, and we review their response before deciding. If we find that the work is plagiarized, infringing, or materially misrepresented, we remove it and leave it out of all future online editions, print runs and publications. If we find the claim is mistaken, we restore the work. Contributors who repeatedly submit work that proves to be plagiarized or misrepresented will not be published again.

Issue One has no print edition, so removal there is complete once the online edition is updated. If we produce print editions of later issues, we cannot recall copies that have already been sold or distributed. In that case we correct the online edition immediately and remove the work from future printings and publications.

We count visits to this site so we can see how many people are reading. Visits are counted on our server, the same way most hosting analytics work. The counter uses no cookies and stores no names, email addresses or IP addresses: each visit is reduced to a one-way, day-limited code that cannot be traced back to a person, along with the page visited, the referring site and a country code. We also record which stories and pages of the Issue One reader are reached, to learn how far readers get.

We may update this page. Changes never expand the permissions a contributor has already granted. See also the submission and publication policy and the submission terms.