Some Legal Problems of the Periodical Notice to Contributors

The periodical notice to contributors is essentially believed as an invitation in the course of entering into a covenant with the contributors to the periodicals. Once the consensus between the editorial department and the authors has reached, the contents of periodical notice to contributors will become one part of the contract. The contents of periodical notice to contributors should conform to the legal regulations and reflect the balanced rights between the periodical department and the authors. The editorial department should not utilize its advantageous status to restrict the rights of authors with the terms in the periodical notice to contributors.