Collaborative research: about licensing, waiving, and ownership
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Ethical Issues, Legal Issues
- Keywords
- license, waiver, agreement, ownership, intellectual property, copyright, collaboration, innovation
- Copyright
- © 2017 Willighagen
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Collaborative research: about licensing, waiving, and ownership. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2753v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2753v1
Abstract
Research collaborations are hampered by copyright law. While these laws are aimed at solving sustainability of writing and later other creative processes, and nowadays knowledge too, the make it harder in a time where research is funded with on temporary projects. This article discusses some of the aspects involved, though the legal foundations are only minimally brought up. One critical aspect is the role of consortium agreements. It also outlines how open licenses can simplify international research, particularly when multiple research projects are involved and when projects have ended.
Author Comment
This is a working draft of a recent personal perspective on innovation in Europe in the context of European Commission-funded research projects. I am not happy with the number of references and want to source more claims with relevant literature or material. Particularly, I want to refer to some of the template consortium agreements that are used by these projects.