Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer

Michael W Carroll

PLOS Biology, 2015, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: Sharing research data by depositing it in connection with a published article or otherwise making data publicly available sometimes raises intellectual property questions in the minds of depositing researchers, their employers, their funders, and other researchers who seek to reuse research data. In this context or in the drafting of data management plans, common questions are (1) what are the legal rights in data; (2) who has these rights; and (3) how does one with these rights use them to share data in a way that permits or encourages productive downstream uses? Leaving to the side privacy and national security laws that regulate sharing certain types of data, this Perspective explains how to work through the general intellectual property and contractual issues for all research data.This Perspective addresses questions and concerns that biologists often have about intellectual property rights in research data and how these interact with the deposition or sharing of data.

Date: 2015
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