Licensing data

Resources and discussions regarding the licensing of research data

Useful articles and blogs on licensing data and attribution / citation issues

• The DCC 'How to License Research Data' guide
  Ball, A. (2014). ‘How to License Research Data’. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre.
  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data

• Open by default: a proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals. Hrynaszkiewicz, I. and Cockerill, M. (2012),BMC Research Notes.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-494

• Blog post on data ownership and CC BY from Katie Fortney at UC3
  'CC BY and data: not always a good fit'
  https://datapub.cdlib.org/2016/09/19/cc-by-and-data-not-always-a-good-fit/

• Open Data Commons article on community norms
  'ODC Attribution-Sharealike Community Norms'
  http://opendatacommons.org/norms/odc-by-sa/

• Why CC0 is mandated for all data submitted to the Dryad digital repository
  ‘Why does Dryad use Creative Commons Zero?’
  http://datadryad.org/pages/faq.

• RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability Interest Group Report
  https://zenodo.org/record/162241#.WHPjWn39k7s