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

[Eda C. Melendez-Colom]

Hi Jonathan,
LUQ has a copyright general statement. See the footer on http://luq.lternet.edu/.
We also have a disclaimer, acknowledgement and a user data user's agreement. See:
http://luq.lternet.edu/user-agreement
...this is closely related to the data management prolicy (http://luq.lternet.edu/informationmanagement/datapolicy)
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.
I am not 100% certain but I think LNO used to have a document suggesting how a copyright statement should look like.
I hope this is what you are looking forand help you somehow .
EDA

Eda C. Melendez Colom Information Manager LTER Program University of Puerto Rico Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943) Fax (787) 772 -1481
 Eda C. Melendez Colom Information Manager LTER Program University of Puerto Rico Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943) Fax (787) 772 -1481

      From: Jonathan Walsh <walshjcaryinstitute at gmail.com>
 To: IM committee <im at lternet.edu>; Amy Schuler <schulera at caryinstitute.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:33 AM
 Subject: [LTER-im] Does LTER leave copyright up to the individual researchers?
   
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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