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h1. Licensing Research Data
If you don't supply a license for your research data, you reserve all rights to its use (see [[copyright]]). However, copyright does not exist on factual data itself, only on the “creative” part of the data – e.g. the layout of a spreadsheet.
If you apply an Attribution or Non-Commercial CC license, it may prevent people from using your data. It is therefore recommended that a Creative Commons CC0 waiver is used – this surrenders rights to the data as far as possible. Attribution should still occur if people use your data in their research - good research practice means that people should cite your data if it is used, and [[Research_Council_Requirements#EPSRC|EPSRC principles]] state that credit should be given.
Details of the various Creative Commons licenses are available on the "CC web-site":http://creativecommons.org/licenses/. web-site"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
The (work in progress) Creative Commons 4.0 licenses aim to be more data friendly than the current CC 3.0 licenses and may be appropriate.
If you don't supply a license for your research data, you reserve all rights to its use (see [[copyright]]). However, copyright does not exist on factual data itself, only on the “creative” part of the data – e.g. the layout of a spreadsheet.
If you apply an Attribution or Non-Commercial CC license, it may prevent people from using your data. It is therefore recommended that a Creative Commons CC0 waiver is used – this surrenders rights to the data as far as possible. Attribution should still occur if people use your data in their research - good research practice means that people should cite your data if it is used, and [[Research_Council_Requirements#EPSRC|EPSRC principles]] state that credit should be given.
Details of the various Creative Commons licenses are available on the "CC web-site":http://creativecommons.org/licenses/. web-site"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
The (work in progress) Creative Commons 4.0 licenses aim to be more data friendly than the current CC 3.0 licenses and may be appropriate.