1. Licensing Research Data for Reuse
Rachael G. Samberg
Scholarly Communica5on Officer dirkcuys, CC-BY-SA, h2ps://flic.kr/p/jAZBNr

2. Data Publishing
h2ps://www.pinterest.com/pin/571886852656265790/

3. Data Licensing
Rachael G. Samberg,
CC-BY-NC-SA

4. A9ribu5on License
Dan4thNicholas, CC-BY, h2ps://flic.kr/p/8PEZiG Sakaki0214, CC-BY-NC-ND, h2ps://flic.kr/p/9jykF1

5. Why should we ever license data?
Licensed iStock illustraUon 495294038

6. • Transparency
• Funder mandates
• Increase scholarly impact
• Downstream innovaUon
• The commons
Licensing supports…

7. • What agreements did you enter into?
– Student vs. Faculty
– Employment agreements / works for hire
• UC Berkeley: © policies plus Academic Personnel Manual
– Grant terms / sponsored projects
– Website / database terms of use
– License from other researcher
What can you license?

8. • How does copyright affect licensing
rights?
– What is copyright?
• Exclusive rights, limited period of Ume
• Protects expression and not facts/ideas. No
“sweat of the brow” reward.
• But not all facets of data sets are “pure”
facts.
What can you license?

9. – Facts vs. compilaUons
– Expressive & qualitaUve data
– (Thin) layers of protecUon for databases
• Expressive data
• OrganizaUonal structures
• DescripUve metadata
How copyright plays out for data…

10. • “Sui generis” database rights (EU and S. Korea)
– Property right rewarding effort in obtaining data
– Non-commercial excepUon
– An EU/SK-created database, used in EU/SK
Other issues to consider

11. • Trade secrets
– Info derives $ value from not being generally known
– Must be subject to reasonable protecUon measures
• Privacy
– Core principal of ethical research and law of many
countries
– PrecauUons to anonymize or protect enough to
license reuse?
Other issues to consider

12. By H. Zell - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19861846
In Context:
Crepidula Fornicata Larval Development

13. BioData Retrieval Invertebrate Results Data Set Description, https://aquatic.biodata.usgs.gov/previewData.action
Example: Licensing Federally-Funded Data
Agreement with publisher BioMed Central journals
means: CC0 waiver for all published data.
Funder agreement with NIH means: Author chooses
license but must be open

14. By Glenda Green (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Example: Licensing Non-Fed-Funded Data

15. Rachael G. Samberg,
CC-BY-NC-SA
How to License
Your Data
h2ps://pixabay.com/en/mollusk-sea-snail-animal-marine-533941/, CC0

16. CC0
(Waiver)
Public Domain
(Label)
CC-BY
(License)
Sample Op5ons

17. • Avoid ambiguity
or if you can
can à confusion
• License doesn’t cover facts, so what’s protected?
• Even CC-By doesn’t require a2ribuUon for non-© facts,
so what are you gaining?
• Scholarly norms suggest a2ribuUon, so you’re not
“losing out” by going with CC0 instead
Choosing

18. • DataONE Dash = released to public domain under CC
waiver (CC0)
• UC Dash = released under CC a2ribuUon license (CC-By)
Sample Repository Terms

19. rsamberg@berkeley.edu
Or, contact the RDM
ConsulUng team at:
researchdata@berkeley.edu
Talk it through

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