I was thinking more on the lines of who is the data controller here - the
University, the sponsor or the student.
I have always thought that on the copyright side students own the copyright
in their thesis, but obviously stand to be corrected on this!
Gwenan
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Subject: RE: Ownership of data - University scenario
> Have you checked the University's Intellectual Property Rights Policy
> document and/or their regulations for students concerning their IPR.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gwenan Owen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 March 2002 13:53
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> Subject: Ownership of data - University scenario
>
>
> Colleagues - I'd be grateful for any guidance on the following scenario:
>
> A research student here has recently completed the analysis of some
> fieldwork data (involving personal data) he has gathered for his PhD
> research, which is funded by an external private sponsor. He now wishes
to
> change supervisor
> but wants to publish the results of his findings under his own name. His
> supervisor is the one who actually 'holds' the grant from the private
> sponsor, and he's supervising the student doing the work. His supervisor
> believes that the data does not belong to the research
> student but to the University and does not want to allow this change to go
> ahead.
>
> A few questions/problems come to mind:
>
> 1. Who does the data belong to? The University, the student and/or the
> sponsor?
> 2. Given that the supervisor holds the purse strings for the grant does
the
> student have the right to transfer his data to a new supervisor within the
> institution?
> 3. Does he have the right to use the data and publish it?
>
> My initial thoughts were that the data belonged to the University and
> possibly the external sponsor. The sponsor would be happy simply to be
cited
> as sponsor what ever happens apparently.
>
> Any further thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
> Thanks, Gwenan
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> Gwenan Owen
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