Copyright and intellectual property rights
- Data always has an owner (personal and proprietary rights), even if it is open data
Moral or non-economic intellectual property rights are defined as the right of authorship, the right to the author’s name, the right to the protection of honor and dignity, the right to the integrity of work, etc. Moral rights shall be non-transferable and owned by the author. Copyright Actlink opens in new page
Copyright economic rights shall include the right to reproduce, distribute, translate, process, etc., the works (the result of creative activity). Industrial property economic rights are the right to apply for a patent or register a utility model and to become the owner of a patent or utility model.
Take a look at Intellectual Property Rightslink opens in new page: the EC’s IPR policy, copyright and trademark protection, advice for rights holders, anti-piracy efforts, and international trade policy.
Ownership of intellectual property economic rights as the result of the author’s creative activity shall be owned by the Estonian University of Life Sciences pursuant to either legislation regulating intellectual property, the contract, or any other written agreement made between the author and the University. The University shall waive the economic rights in scientific articles, conference presentations, and materials (presentation file, abstract, etc.) in favor of the author.
Licenses
- Applying open licenses helps communicate the terms of use for research data
- The most commonly used licensing systems are Creative Commonslink opens in new page and Open Data Commonslink opens in new page
Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.
Take a look at CC Licenses and Exampleslink opens in new page
When saving in the digital archive EMU DSpace, the final thesis is assigned a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (except with indefinite restriction) for preservation and public accessibility. This license allows the thesis to be reproduced, distributed and made available to the public with proper attribution to the author, but it prohibits creating derivative works and using the work for commercial purposes.
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