Timeline for How to show a student the work done in the lab is the lab's (or is it?)
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Oct 30, 2015 at 4:37 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | This is not to say you can't stop students from misusing the lab's data. A suitable contract could do the job, but copyright alone isn't enough. | |
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:33 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Copyright doesn't protect data either. Some (but not all) data sets would be considered copyrighted compilations and nobody else could publish a copy of the compilation in this form. However, it's not a copyright violation to publish papers based on the data or make other use of the data (fitting models, plotting graphs, etc.). | |
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:21 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | @AnonymousMathematician you cannot just reword laboratory data. The question did not ask about ideas. | |
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:21 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Another issue is that academic papers are typically not considered works for hire. In most cases the authors initially hold the copyright, rather than their employers. (There's some debate about whether universities could classify them as works for hire, but they usually don't try and would face protests if they did.) That makes it awkward to apply such a policy to undergraduates. | |
Oct 30, 2015 at 4:17 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | I don't think this solves the problem. One issue is that "work for hire" is a copyright matter, and copyright can't prevent someone from publishing if they don't copy anything. If I create a work for hire for you, that doesn't stop me from publishing my own, differently worded account based on the same ideas, since copyright doesn't protect ideas. And it covers only works created as part of employment: if I leave your lab and then write a paper after I'm no longer being paid, then that paper was never a work for hire. | |
Oct 30, 2015 at 3:57 | history | answered | Anonymous Physicist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |