[LTER-im] Does LTER leave copyright up to the individual researchers?

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi Jonathan -
If they are asking how to attribute the dataset, I would suggest that 
they use a citation with the dataset DOI, like the ones on 
portal.lternet.edu. Those citations resemble citation for an academic 
paper.

If they want to use the data for some profit-making venture, that is 
probably up to the site (as the owner) to allow or not. SBC's policy for 
what kind of re-use is permissible is in our data use agreement - in the 
intellectualRights section of datasets, and on our website. We say 'no 
commercial use', but of course, have no way of enforcing that.

Margaret

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Margaret O'Brien
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Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
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On 3/1/16 7:33 AM, Jonathan Walsh wrote:
>
> How do you folks handle the issue of what copyright, if any, a 
> researcher can and should and place on a dataset?
>
> I know publicly funded stuff is free to use by anyone but would you 
> still express some copyright, like Creative Commons on it?
>
> This came up as a question from a for-profit entity about using Cary 
> Institute data.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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