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From: | Edward d'Auvergne |
Subject: | [Savannah-register-public] [task #14528] Submission of relax |
Date: | Tue, 6 Aug 2019 05:41:11 -0400 (EDT) |
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Follow-up Comment #49, task #14528 (project administration): Of course! But note that the advisory notice you quoted earlier specifically covers patent issues: "The user assumes all responsibility for insuring that intellectual property claims associated with any data set deposited in the PDB archive are honored. It should be understood that the PDB data files do not contain any information on intellectual property claims with the exception in some cases of a reference for a patent involving the structure." This is basic knowledge for all practitioners in the structural biology field. So I've been talking about patents because you specifically brought up this PDB patent text. PDB file deposition into the database requires the authors to waiver their copyright. There are absolutely zero exceptions to this! You see this in the deposition forms <https://deposit-1.wwpdb.org/deposition/> when you are going through the deposition process. That is why the Usage policy <https://www.rcsb.org/pages/usage-policy> states: "Data files contained in the PDB archive (ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org) are free of all copyright restrictions and made fully and freely available for both non-commercial and commercial use." Data deposition to the PDB has required authors to waiver their copyright since the start of the database in 1971. The next sentence is basic advice on how to be a good scientist - it has nothing to do with copyright law: "Users of the data should attribute the original authors of that structural data." _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?14528> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/
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