savannah-register-public
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Savannah-register-public] [task #14528] Submission of relax


From: Edward d'Auvergne
Subject: [Savannah-register-public] [task #14528] Submission of relax
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 05:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

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/




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]