Carroll Michael W
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
PLoS Biol. 2015 Aug 27;13(8):e1002235. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002235. eCollection 2015 Aug.
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.
通过与已发表文章相关联的方式存入研究数据或使数据以其他方式公开可用，有时会在数据存入研究者、他们的雇主、资助者以及寻求重新使用研究数据的其他研究者心中引发知识产权问题。在此背景下或在起草数据管理计划时，常见问题包括：（1）数据的合法权利有哪些；（2）谁拥有这些权利；（3）拥有这些权利的人如何利用这些权利以允许或鼓励下游有效使用的方式共享数据？撇开规范某些类型数据共享的隐私和国家安全法律不谈，本观点阐述了如何解决所有研究数据的一般知识产权和合同问题。
