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Hi Robert, If by offering a default CC0 you are aiming to signal an ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ policy I think you have neatly summarized the case for CC0. One point I’d make is that it might convey to repository users that attribution is not needed, unless the repository also offers clear guidance that preferably gives people the text to cite for each record. That’s not a reason to avoid CCO, but it’s arguably an implementation cost. Of course you can’t realistically expect depositors to read lengthy guidance on licensing. They might however use a license picker like the EUDAT B2SHARE license selection wizard, which Pawel Kamocki (et al) released under an open source license here: https://ufal.github.io/public-license-selector/ One possible reason for repositories to prefer CC-BY is that researchers may be more easily persuaded to deposit in a public repository if there is a legal obligation on data reusers to give attribution (though I don’t recall seeing any studies demonstrating that). That case might seem more convincing if the deposited data collection includes information helpful to interpret the data, and that information is clearly subject to copyright, such as narrative explaining how data was derived etc. A counterpoint is that these days there is a variety of data journals to which anyone who really wants attribution for their data documentation can submit a data paper, and then link that to a repository record containing more minimal description. Just as a reminder the DCC has a how-to guide on licensing research data available here. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data Best wishes, Angus Dr Angus Whyte Snr Institutional Support Officer Digital Curation Centre University of Edinburgh +44-131-650-9986 skype: angusawhyte The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Robert Darby <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, 9 January 2017 at 10:48 To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CC0 licensing for institutional data Hello all I was wondering if any institutional data repositories are using or considering use of CC0 as the recommended/default licensing option for research data (where no restrictive requirements exists)? We offer all CC options in our Research Data Archive but currently CC BY is the recommended/default option (https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/data_policy.html). I’m persuaded of the case for use of CC0 where possible: - it is easy to understand for data depositors and prospective users of data, and applicable whatever the jurisdiction; - it eliminates possible barriers to re-use inherent in restrictive licensing (e.g. complicated attribution stacking for aggregated data), thus enabling the widest possible re-use of data; - removing the legal attribution requirement does not affect the creators’ right to receive credit through acknowledgement and citation, which is enforced through the norms of scholarly communication; - it expresses a clear pro-open research position on the part of the University and its researchers. CC0 is mandated for all data submitted to the Dryad digital repository: see ‘Why does Dryad use Creative Commons Zero?’ at http://datadryad.org/pages/faq. There’s a BMC editorial from 2012 that makes the case compellingly: Hrynaszkiewicz, I. and Cockerill, M. (2012), ‘Open by default: a proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals’. BMC Research Notes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-494. I’d to recommend we make CC0 our preferred licence for data deposited in our institutional repository (with all other options remaining available and at the depositor’s discretion). Does anyone know of a reason why we might not want to do this? Any thoughts would be gratefully received. Robert Dr Robert Darby | Research Data Manager | Research and Enterprise | University of Reading | Whiteknights House 201 | PO Box 217 | Reading RG6 6AH | T: +44 (0)118 378 6161 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Twitter: @robert_darby17 http://www.reading.ac.uk/reas-ResearchDataManagement.aspx Opening Research at Reading Blog: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/open-research/