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Tools to produce, analyse and compare both simulated and recorded neuronal datasets
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Copyright issues on publicizing kato data? #11

Closed theideasmith closed 8 years ago

theideasmith commented 8 years ago

@lukeczapla and I obtained the data from Manuel Zimmer. Going forward, I'm wondering if we need to check with them if publicizing the data is OK. We didn't get any sharing guidelines in the email from them, but I just want to be safe here.

Thoughts anyone?

slarson commented 8 years ago

Ah, yeah. I didn't realize that. You should ask them. Default is copyright goes to the original author. Best is if you can get them to agree to a data sharing license. Email sent to you with the agreement should be sufficient.

I'd correspond with the following: http://opendatacommons.org/guide/

If they are hesitant, probably better to take the data sets down (which would be unfortunate, but more correct).

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@lukeczapla https://github.com/lukeczapla and I obtained the data from Manuel Zimmer. Going forward, I'm wondering if we need to check with them if publicizing the data is OK. We didn't get any sharing guidelines in the email from them, but I just want to be safe here.

Thoughts anyone?

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theideasmith commented 8 years ago

If we do need to take them down, maybe we can harness @benjijack's RNNs generate surrogate datasets; would these be under the potential copyright as well because they are a derivative of the original data?

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Ah, yeah. I didn't realize that. You should ask them. Default is copyright goes to the original author. Best is if you can get them to agree to a data sharing license. Email sent to you with the agreement should be sufficient.

I'd correspond with the following: http://opendatacommons.org/guide/

If they are hesitant, probably better to take the data sets down (which would be unfortunate, but more correct).

On Monday, April 18, 2016, Akiva Lipshitz notifications@github.com wrote:

@lukeczapla https://github.com/lukeczapla and I obtained the data from Manuel Zimmer. Going forward, I'm wondering if we need to check with them if publicizing the data is OK. We didn't get any sharing guidelines in the email from them, but I just want to be safe here.

Thoughts anyone?

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lukeczapla commented 8 years ago

hi Akiva, the technical details of copyright are not a big factor to worry about for this non-commercial project that we are doing for the sake of science; if they do have an issue (very improbable) then of course we should take it down.

Let me follow up with them, the polite thing to do is follow up with any major findings that have happened as a result of getting the data. Since we have developed an open-source tool to analyze their data within the OpenWorm simulation project, that sounds like a good reason to send them a short note.

slarson commented 8 years ago

Closing because the question was answered