Copyright

  1. The editorial board of Professional Art Education complies with copyright law, in particular the Law of Ukraine “On Copyright and Related Rights”.
  2. Authors retain full copyright in their articles. By submitting an article, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right of first publication. No economic rights are transferred to the journal.
  3. Articles are published in open access under Creative Commons licenses. Since 2026 (Vol. 7), all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which allows anyone to copy, distribute, adapt and use the material, including commercially, provided that the authors and the original publication in the journal are credited. Earlier articles remain under the license with which they were published: 2020 – Vol. 4, No. 1 (2023) — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) – 2025 — CC BY-NC 4.0. The license of each article is stated on its page, in the PDF and in its DOI metadata (see Type of Licensing).
  4. Authors may use their own articles without restriction and without permission from the editorial board: in teaching and research, in dissertations, conference papers and presentations, and by depositing any version of the article (including the publisher’s version) on personal websites, in institutional or subject repositories, etc. We ask authors to cite the original publication in the journal and its DOI.
  5. By submitting an article, authors confirm that it is original, has not been published before, is not under consideration elsewhere and complies with the submission requirements.
  6. Authorship is limited to those who made a substantial contribution to the conception, execution or interpretation of the study. Other contributors should be named in the acknowledgements.
  7. Authors sign the author agreement, which confirms the originality of the work and grants the journal a non-exclusive right of first publication under CC BY 4.0. The agreement does not transfer copyright. If the article is rejected, the agreement becomes void.
  8. Authors must notify the editorial board of any significant errors or inaccuracies found in their submitted or published work so that they can be corrected or, if necessary, the article can be retracted (see Article Retraction Procedure).