DATA COPYRIGHT
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VEERLE VAN DEN EYNDEN
RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT TEAM
UK DATA ARCHIVE
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
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LOOKING AFTER AND MANAGING YOUR RESEARCH DATA (GOING DIGITAL AND ESRC ATN EVENTS)
UK DATA ARCHIVE, COLCHESTER, 24-25 APRIL 2013
OVERVIEW
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COPYRIGHT IS AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT
ASSIGNED AUTOMATICALLY TO THE CREATOR, THAT
PREVENTS UNAUTHORISED COPYING AND PUBLISHING OF
AN ORIGINAL WORK. COPYRIGHT APPLIES TO RESEARCH
DATA AND PLAYS A ROLE WHEN CREATING, SHARING AND
RE-USING DATA.
AREAS OF COVERAGE
• Definitions
• Copyright legislation
• Who owns copyright?
• Copyright and data sharing
• Secondary use of data and copyright
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DEFINITIONS
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Copyright:
• intellectual property right
• protect owner of a work from unauthorised copying
• gives control over exploitation
Copyright cannot:
• be taken away without consent
• be abused without the possibility of legal action
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COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988
Covers:
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original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work
sound recordings, films, broadcasts
typographical arrangement of publications
computer programmes, databases
Most research materials = literary or artistic work
e.g. text, spreadsheets, maps, recordings, publications,
computer programs, data
Database structure
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WHO OWNS COPYRIGHT?
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• Author or creator of a work
Except:
• work made by an employee as part of employment - the
employer is the first owner of copyright
• academic institutions and funding bodies may waive copyright
in research materials and publications and assign ownership
to the researchers
• check copyright policy of your institution
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WHO OWNS COPYRIGHT?
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• if work has two authors – joint copyright for both authors
• research project has multiple researchers institutions - joint
copyright for all researchers/institutions
• research materials derived from existing data - free or
purchased – joint copyright
• existing data may have been purchased or ‘lent’ by someone –
still under copyright
• also information ‘taken’ from public sources, e.g. websites, are
under copyright to the creator
• interviews in research - individual interviewees have
copyright in the ‘words’ of their particular interview
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COPYRIGHT AND DATA SHARING
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• copyright permissions need to be sought and granted prior to
data sharing/archiving
• clearing copyright – reach agreement with copyright holder
• data archives publish data – they hold no copyright
• copyright holders give permission to data archives to preserve
data and make them accessible to users
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SECONDARY USE OF DATA AND COPYRIGHT
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• obtain copyright clearance before data can be reproduced
Exceptions to copyright - fair dealing:
• for non-commercial research, private study, teaching,
quotations, criticism or review
• author and source must be cited
• applies to literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, not to films
or recordings
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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
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• encourage re-use of intellectual property
• frequently used in academia
• creators communicate:
• rights they wish to keep
• rights they wish to waive
e.g. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
www.creativecommons.org
For data also:
• Open Data Commons Licence
• Open Government Licence
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EXERCISE: COPYRIGHT
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Consider the data copyright scenarios
p. 105-108
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CONTACT
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UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
WIVENHOE PARK
COLCHESTER
ESSEX CO4 3SQ
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T: +44 (0)1206 872143
E: datasharing@data-archive.ac.uk
W: www.data-archive.ac.uk
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