With regards to publishing an article, any legal differences depend on each review's policy, whether or not they authorise free copy of an article, in accordance with contractual conditions.

In traditional reviews, the restrictive copyright system is not in favour of exploiting and reusing scientific works for research purposes.

In open access reviews, although some rights are conveyed to the review, copying the articles or uploading them on an open archive server are authorised in most cases.

This short video by Michael Carroll, professor of Law and Director of the Washington College of Law, encourages authors to be aware of the copyright issue and  the institutions to support their authors (CC Licence: BY).