Nature News: Venice ‘time machine’ project suspended amid data row

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03240-w

Disagreements among international partners leave plans to digitize the Italian city’s history in limbo.

Two key partners have suspended the Venice Time Machine project after reaching an impasse over issues surrounding open data and methodology. The State Archive of Venice and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) say they have had to pause data collection, and the archive’s director has raised questions about the usability of the 8 terabytes of information that have already been collected.

Microsoft releases data use agreements for open data

Microsoft has released three data use agreements for open data, and is asking for public comments/feedback before the end of September 2019:

• Open Use of Data Agreement (O-UDA)
• "Designed for use with open datasets which don't include personal data or data owned by a data provider. It is the most open and least restricted of the three first proposals."
• Computational Use of Data Agreement (C-UDA)
• "The goal of the C-UDA is to define a use of data sets for AI training purposes that contain third party materials, in a manner consistent with law."
• Data Use Agreement for Open AI Model Development (DUA-OAI)
• "The goal of the DUA-OAI is to create a template agreement that parties might use to share data to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model and then to make that trained AI model publicly available through an open source licensing structure."

From ZDNet:

Microsoft looks to 'do for data sharing what open source did for code'
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-looks-to-do-for-data-sharing-what-open-source-did-for-code/

The agreements are listed here:
https://news.microsoft.com/datainnovation/#data-use-agreements

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.

03 August 2016

"... 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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Council of the European Union calls for full open access to scientific research by 2020 - Creative Commons blog post

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A few weeks ago we wrote about how the European Union is pushing ahead its support for open access to EU-funded scientific research and data. Today at the meeting of the Council of the European Union, the Council reinforced the commitment to making all scientific articles and data openly accessible and reusable by 2020. In its communication, the Council offered several conclusions on the transition towards an open science system:

• ACKNOWLEDGES that open science has the potential to increase the quality, impact and benefits of science and to accelerate advancement of knowledge by making it more reliable, more efficient and accurate, better understandable by society and responsive to societal challenges, and has the potential to enable growth and innovation through reuse of scientific results by all stakeholders at all levels of society, and ultimately contribute to growth and competitiveness of Europe;

• INVITES the Commission and the Member States to explore legal possibilities for measures in this respect and promote the use of licensing models, such as Creative Commons, for scientific publications and research data sets;

• WELCOMES open access to scientific publications as the option by default for publishing the results of publicly funded research;

• AGREES to further promote the mainstreaming of open access to scientific publications by continuing to support a transition to immediate open access as the default by 2020;

• ENCOURAGES the Member States, the Commission and stakeholders to set optimal reuse of research data as the point of departure, whilst recognising the needs for different access regimes because of Intellectual Property Rights, personal data protection and confidentiality, security concerns, as well as global economic competitiveness and other legitimate interests.

You can read the rest of the conclusions here. Crucially, the Council said that “open access to scientific publications” will be interpreted as being aligned to the definition laid out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative: free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

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