The Sapientia Filipina: Review of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (SFREMS) recognizes and respects the intellectual property rights of authors, researchers, reviewers, editors, and other contributors. The journal is committed to protecting original scholarly work while promoting the responsible dissemination, accessibility, and lawful reuse of academic knowledge through open-access publishing.

SFREMS encourages innovation, creativity, and ethical scholarship by ensuring that all published content is managed in accordance with applicable intellectual property laws, licensing requirements, and internationally recognized standards for scholarly publishing.

Authors retain full copyright and intellectual property rights to their published articles.

Publication in SFREMS does not require authors to transfer ownership of their intellectual property.

Authors retain the right to:

Authors remain the owners of their original intellectual contributions throughout and after publication.

Upon acceptance and publication, authors grant SFREMS a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to:

Because this publishing license is non-exclusive, authors remain free to exercise all copyright rights while acknowledging the original publication in SFREMS.

All articles published in SFREMS are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Subject to the terms of this license, users may:

Users must:

No additional legal or technological restrictions may be imposed that would limit the rights granted by the license.

Authors are solely responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any third-party material included in their manuscripts whenever such permission is required by copyright law.

Third-party materials may include:

Authors must ensure that:

The Editorial Office may request documentation demonstrating that appropriate permissions have been secured.

Authors retain intellectual property rights over their original research data, software, educational materials, research instruments, and supplementary resources unless otherwise governed by institutional policies, funding agreements, or applicable laws.

Where research outputs are shared publicly, authors should clearly indicate:

The journal encourages responsible sharing of research outputs while respecting confidentiality, privacy, contractual obligations, and intellectual property rights.

SFREMS takes allegations of intellectual property infringement seriously.

Examples include:

Allegations of infringement will be investigated in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics Policy.

Where appropriate, the journal may:

Authors submitting manuscripts to SFREMS confirm that:

Authors remain responsible for resolving any copyright or ownership disputes arising from submitted work.

The intellectual property associated with the SFREMS journal website—including its name, logo, visual identity, website design, editorial content, graphics, software, and other non-article materials—is owned by the journal or its publisher unless otherwise stated.

These materials are protected by applicable copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws and may not be reproduced, modified, distributed, or used without prior written permission, except where permitted by law.

This restriction does not apply to scholarly articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which remain subject to the permissions granted by that license.

Where intellectual property disputes arise, the Editorial Office may:

Editorial decisions are made fairly, objectively, and in accordance with publication ethics and applicable intellectual property laws.

The Sapientia Filipina: Review of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (SFREMS) is committed to fostering an academic environment that respects creativity, innovation, originality, and responsible scholarship. By protecting authors' intellectual property while promoting open access and lawful reuse of scholarly work, the journal supports ethical knowledge dissemination, academic collaboration, and the advancement of multidisciplinary research for the benefit of researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, institutions, and society.

This Intellectual Property Policy has been developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles of copyright, publication ethics, open-access publishing, and responsible scholarly communication and is aligned with:

SFREMS periodically reviews and updates this Intellectual Property Policy to ensure continued alignment with evolving international standards for publication ethics, copyright management, editorial transparency, research integrity, and responsible open-access scholarly publishing.