What is data licensing?
A data licence is a legal instrument that specifies a standard set of terms and conditions regarding sharing and re-use of your research data. If you want to publish your research data in a data repository, you have to choose a licence to accompany your data. Each data repository has its own licensing options.
What are the types of open data?
What kinds of open data?
- Culture: Data about cultural works and artefacts — for example titles and authors — and generally collected and held by galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
- Science: Data that is produced as part of scientific research from astronomy to zoology.
What are the different types of open source licenses?
There are over 80 variations of open-source licenses, but they generally fall into one of two primary categories: copyleft and permissive. Copyleft license is a license type in which code derived from the original open source code inherits its license terms.
Which is the best license for open data?
We recommend for ‘open’ data you use one of the licenses conformant with the Open Definition and marked as suitable for data. This list (along with instructions for usage) can be found at:
Why are data licenses different from IP licenses?
While similar in some respects to other types of IP licenses, data licenses present several unique licensing issues concerning, for example: Among other reasons, this is because a party, for example, a service vendor, may: Receive or collect and compile data from another party, for example, a customer
What should be included in a data license?
A data license also should address the manner of delivery, maintenance and control of the data, as well as data security policies, practices and protocols, in particular where the data comprises personal or sensitive financial, technical or commercial information.