How will you manage copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues?

Owned by Varmo Pilt
03 December 2021
1 min read


Questions to consider:

  • Who owns the data?
  • How will the data be licensed for reuse?
  • Are there any restrictions on the reuse of third-party data?
  • Will data sharing be postponed/restricted, e.g. to publish or seek patents?


Guidance:

State who will own the copyright and IPR of any data that you will collect or create, along with the licence(s) for its use and reuse. For multi-partner projects, IPR ownership may be worth covering in a consortium agreement. Consider any relevant funder, institutional, departmental or group policies on copyright or IPR. Also consider permissions to reuse third-party data and any restrictions needed on data sharing.

SAMPLE :

Our principle has been open source policy, however, the Department of Cybernetics will own the IPR. The software will be developed under GPLv3.

Data will be made available through scientific publications and corresponding data supplements, either as supporting materials of the publication or separate entity in a publicly accessible database.

We do not expect to seek patents as a part of this project. Data will be made open with the reuse licenses applied in accordance with ETAg and TalTech guidelines, journal policies, and agreement with the collaboration partners.

For each dataset, the terms will be set specifically taking all the above requirements into account.


See the DCC guide on How to license research data, and EUDAT's data and software licensing wizard

 

 

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