In alignment with international Open Access best practices, authors who publish in the Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies (JCCS) retain the full copyright of their published work.

Terms of Copyright & Publishing Rights

1. Copyright Ownership: Copyright of all articles published in JCCS remains with the respective Author(s) without restriction.
2. First Publication Right: Authors grant Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies (published by Mahesa Research Center) the right of first publication and a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, index, and archive the article across national and international bibliographic databases.
3. Public Reuse License: Upon publication, the article is simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and JCCS as the source of first publication (including the DOI link) are properly credited.
4. Author Self-Archiving & Redistribution: Authors are free to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an university repository or publishing it in a monograph), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in JCCS.