<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4068"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">Hi Jonathan,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4138"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4198" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">LUQ has a copyright </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">general </span>statement. See the footer on <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4218" href="http://luq.lternet.edu/">http://luq.lternet.edu/</a>.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4224" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4229" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">We also have a disclaimer, acknowledgement and a user data user's agreement. See:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4263" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4265" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4264" href="http://luq.lternet.edu/user-agreement">http://luq.lternet.edu/user-agreement</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4286" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4306" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">...this is closely related to the data management prolicy (<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4375" href="http://luq.lternet.edu/informationmanagement/datapolicy">http://luq.lternet.edu/informationmanagement/datapolicy</a>)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4424" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4425" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">When
the author wants to place additional restrictions on a data set, this
have to be in accordance with the policy, which covers exceptions (Data
Type II). A statement explaining this should be placed somewhere in the
Metadata of the corresponding data set.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4591" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4592" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">I am not 100% certain but I think LNO used to have a document suggesting how a copyright statement should look like.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4521" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4537" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">I hope this is what you are looking forand help you somehow .</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4538" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4539" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137">EDA<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4484" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4137"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456848726777_4150" class="signature">Eda C. Melendez Colom
Information Manager
LTER Program
University of Puerto Rico
Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943)
Fax (787) 772 -1481</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456849513633_2922"><span></span></div><div> </div><div class="signature">Eda C. Melendez Colom
Information Manager
LTER Program
University of Puerto Rico
Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943)
Fax (787) 772 -1481</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456849513633_2960" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jonathan Walsh <walshjcaryinstitute@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> IM committee <im@lternet.edu>; Amy Schuler <schulera@caryinstitute.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:33 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [LTER-im] Does LTER leave copyright up to the individual researchers?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7227561512"><div dir="ltr">How do you folks handle the issue of what copyright, if any, a researcher can and should and place on a dataset?</div>
<div dir="ltr">I know publicly funded stuff is free to use by anyone but would you still express some copyright, like Creative Commons on it? </div>
<div dir="ltr">This came up as a question from a for-profit entity about using Cary Institute data.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Thank you. </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Long Term Ecological Research Network<br>im mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:im@lternet.edu" href="mailto:im@lternet.edu">im@lternet.edu</a><br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>