We assist researchers in navigating data copyright, licensing, and self-archiving regulations, ensuring that you understand your rights and responsibilities when sharing your data.
When discussing databases, it is important to differentiate between their structure and content. The structural elementsof a database that involve originality are generally protected by copyright. However, while individual data points are not copyrightable, in many jurisdictions, a curated data collection that demonstrates creativity may qualify for copyright protection.
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We provide advice on Open License tools, helping you make your documents freely accessible while protecting your copyrights.
Promoting sharing and unlimited use of the data that you have produced yourself is best achieved using explicit licences. For open data it is recommended that you use one of the open compliant licenses marked as suitable for data.
The CC BY license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author for the original creation.
For concerns related to commercialization or patents, contact PACTT (Powering Academia-Industry Collaborations and Technology Transfer).