Thursday, 4 August 2016

Nature article: Legal confusion threatens to slow data science

http://www.nature.com/news/legal-confusion-threatens-to-slow-data-science-1.20359

Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law.
"... some of the data sets that he wanted to use had clear licences ­— and some of these prevented unrestricted redistribution, but others did not. The most frustrating part of his project, he says, was the feeling that good data were going to waste because their creators could not clarify whether he could republish them."

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