Copyright and takedown

Our own material

Text, tables, figures, cover art, hero illustrations and monogram devices published in the Journal are our own work or are generated by our own tooling. All imagery on this site is generated vector art produced by the Journal; we license no stock photography and use none.

If we have used yours

Tell us and we will fix it, quickly and without argument, unless we believe the use is lawful — in which case we will tell you why and we will still discuss it. Send the following to standards@compoundjournal.com:

1. Identification of the work you say has been infringed, sufficient for us to find it.
2. The URL or URLs on compoundjournal.com where the material appears, and a description of the specific element you are complaining about.
3. Your name, and a statement of your relationship to the rights concerned.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights holder, an agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
6. A physical or electronic signature.

We acknowledge within two working days and resolve within ten. Where we remove material we note the removal on the page rather than deleting the page, because a silent disappearance is indistinguishable from an act of suppression.

Counter-notice

If material of yours has been removed from our site on someone else’s complaint and you believe the removal was wrong, write to the same address with the material identified, your reasons, your consent to jurisdiction and a signature. We will restore it unless we are told the complainant has commenced proceedings.

Quoting us

Reasonable extracts, with the publication named and — online — a link to the piece, need no permission and are welcome. For anything longer, or for translation or reproduction of a table or figure, write to the standards desk. We say yes to most requests, we say yes to all requests from students and clinicians, and we ask nothing in return except accurate attribution.

What we will not remove

The Journal receives requests, some of them from lawyers, to remove accurate reporting that a company finds unflattering. To be plain about it:

• We do not remove accurate reporting because it is inconvenient, commercially damaging or embarrassing.
• We do not remove a correction, or a correction log entry, at anybody’s request.
• We do not remove a record of an unanswered question. Silence is a fact and we report it.
• We do not remove an analytical result because a supplier disputes it. We will publish the dispute, in full, alongside it — and we will publish a further determination if one is commissioned.
• We do not accept payment, advertising or any other consideration in exchange for the removal, amendment or non-publication of editorial content.

What we will always do is correct a factual error, promptly and in public. If you believe we have published something untrue, that is a different conversation and a much easier one: write to standards@compoundjournal.com with the evidence.