Licensing FAIR Data for Reuse

作     者：Ignasi Labastida Thomas Margoni Ignasi Labastida;Thomas Margoni

作者机构：Learning and Research Resources Centre(CRAI)Universitat de Barcelona08007 BarcelonaSpain School of Law and CREATeUniversity of GlasgowStair Building 5-9 The SquareGlasgow G128QQUK 

出 版 物：《Data Intelligence》 (数据智能（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第2卷第1期

页      面：199-207页

核心收录：

学科分类：0301[法学-法学] 08[工学] 081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Thomas Margoni co-coordinates the legal task force of OpenAIRE Advance a project funded under the H2020 programme of the European Commission project n°:777541.We would like to thank the support of the project. 

主　　题：Rsearch data Open content licensing Copyright Sui generis database rights FAIR data Legal aspects of FAIR(especially for R) 

摘      要：The last letter of the FAIR acronym stands for Reusability.Data and metadata should be made available with a clear and accessible usage license.But,what are the choices?How can researchers share data and allow reusability?Are all the licenses available for sharing content suitable for data?Data can be covered by different layers of copyright protection making the relationship between data and copyright particularly complex.Some research data can be considered as a work and therefore covered by full copyright while other data can be in the public domain due to their lack of originality.Moreover,a collection of data can be protected by special rights in Europe to acknowledge the investment in time and money in obtaining,presenting,arranging or verifying the data.The need of using a license when sharing data comes from the fact that,under current copyright laws,when rights exist,the absence of any legal notice must be understood as the default“all rights reservedregime.Unless an exception applies,the authorisation of right holders is necessary for reuse.Right holders could use any text to state the reusability of data but it is advisable to use some of the existing licenses,and especially the ones that are suitable for data and databases.We hope that with this paper we can bring some clarity in relation to the rights involved when sharing research data.