Daniel Himmelstein
Head of Data Integration at Related Sciences. Digital craftsman of the biodata revolution.
Copyright versus open science: a story of data integration
November 15, 2015
Brussels, Belgium
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1. copyright
limited by:
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fair use
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originality (excludes facts)
2. contract
agreement entered into to receive access to a resource
- can impose restrictions beyond copyright
restrictions on data
automatically granted to "original works of authorship" giving the exclusive right to:
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copy
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distribute
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create derivatives
Chia-Jung Tsay
Samuel Mehr
Copyright prevents reproducible science
2013: Finds people use sight over sound for scoring music competitions
Study based on 6-second clips from 10 YouTube videos
Interested researchers cannot replicate her findings using different clips
3 of the original clips are no longer online
Time: 18 months
Result: Tsay claims she cannot provide the 3 removed videos due to copyright law
Network for drug repurposing
- 50k nodes
10 types
- 3M edges
27 types
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28 public resources
- thinklab.com
DOI: 10.15363/thinklab.4
- open for reuse & reproducibility
1. ∅ license
3. ∅ distribute
- MSigDB — publicly-funded project from the Broad
- publication data supplements
complications
4. standard
- 9 resources
- all rights reserved
- upon contact:
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- 1 permission
- 0 licenses added
2. unclear
- 4 resources
- clarification after laborious and slow permission requests
- 11 resources
- incompatibilities
5. government
- 4 resources
- public domain
Resolution after months & 5000+ word discussion: mixed approach
Copyright versus open science: a story of data integration
By Daniel Himmelstein
Copyright versus open science: a story of data integration
WATCH ONLINE at https://youtu.be/2Y2OIutYE4Y. OpenCon. ABSTRACT: We recently created a network for drug repurposing with 3 million edges. Creating the network brought together 27 collaborators who communicated via 266 CC-BY posts. The network integrates data from 28 public resources. However, each source imposes it’s own (often incompatible) restrictions, implicitly by copyright or explicitly by licensing. We’ve contacted 10 resources, with only a single affirmative response. We’re currently exposing the harms of transferring data copyright to publishers as well as Universities that seek to profit from publicly-funded databases while preventing reuse.
