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Copyright and legal compliance

Your Data Management Plan (DMP) should provide answers to the following questions:

  1. How will you manage ethical issues?
  2. How will you manage copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues?

The tables below show considerations you should make when writing your answer, with example answers to help guide your writing.

Question: How will you manage ethical issues?

Considerations:

  • What will you tell participants regarding how their data is used, preserved, and shared including after the project (and at what timescale)?
  • How will you protect participant anonymity?
  • How will you handle sensitive data?

Example answer: 

This is being drafted and will be added here when completed.

 

Question: How will you manage copyright and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues?

Considerations:

  • Who owns your research data?
  • How will data be licensed for reuse at the end of the project?
  • What restrictions may apply to reuse of third-party data?
  • Any needs to postpone or restrict data sharing? (e.g. to publish or seek patents)

Example answer: 

This is being drafted and will be added here when completed.

 

Need more help?

Visit the UK Data Service. They have advice on sharing data.