[Vp-integration-subgroup] Licensing issues

[Jacob Barhak]

Yes Sheriff,

This makes sense if Robin and his co-authors want to invest more time to
invest in the archiving process - which I support.
However, the license issue needs to be resolved first. You see, for anyone
to release the model into-biomodels they need to give away copyright to
release under CC0.

And this is basically what I was asking - what is the licensing policies
the institution has? For example, can the authors waive copyright in that
institution?

If the answer is yes and I get permission, I promise to upload a simplified
version of one of their models to Bio-Models - one that I have implemented
with the authors permission.

This will be a nice example of what should be done for models. However,
this email thread was intended to show the differences in approach for
licensing and float it up. Not all institutions allow everything to
creators - it varies and conditional on many factors that may change.

I hope it is possible.

           Jacob





On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:10 PM Rahuman Sheriff <sheriff at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Robin and Jacob,
> I am happy to support, if you would like the model to be deposited to
> BioModels repository [1].
> Not only the models gets higher visibility, it might be potentially
> curated and annotated and therefore can attract higher citation.
>
> Best regards
> Sheriff
>
> [1] https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/48/D1/D407/5614569
>
> On 24 Jan 2021, at 18:05, Robin Thompson <robin.thompson1988 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jacob,
>
> Thanks for your email. I have asked the relevant person at Oxford
> University (the institution I was at when this research was undertaken),
> and I will let you know when I hear back from them.
>
> Thanks, and best wishes,
> Robin
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Robin Thompson
> Assistant Professor of Mathematical Epidemiology
> Mathematics Institute
> University of Warwick, UK
> www.robin-thompson.co.uk
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On 22 Jan 2021, at 20:37, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Robin, and anyone else who wants to comment,
>
> When integrating your model, you may recall I asked for permissions to use
> it and mentioned licensing issues.
>
> One of your responses was that you have to check with your institution
> regarding commercial use while you yourself were ok with me reusing your
> model and had no restrictions.
>
> I wish to explore the licensing issue in this mailing list to show what
> are approaches of different institutions and individuals to the problem.
>
> Is it possible for you to check about the policy in your institution? The
> idea is to show some examples of how institutions approach the issue. For
> example, do they delegate the decision to researchers? Do they have a
> policy about who holds the copyright? How do they treat commercial entities?
>
> I know in the US, a faculty member in most cases retains rights for their
> work, this does not always extend to staff and I am not sure
> about students. I also know that some academic institutions support tech
> transfer through patents and other endeavours.
>
> I was trying to discuss licenses here:
>
> https://forum.comses.net/t/issues-with-regard-to-call-for-transparency-of-covid-19-models/8433
>
>
> Yet this discussion was not concluded.
>
> One notable approach that Sheriff made me aware of is taken by BioModels:
> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/faq
> They avoid the licensing issues by making all models available under CC0
>
> I am showing here some aspects of the issue and asking for you to
> check with your institution to explore all aspects of this issue so we can
> properly report those in the white paper.
>
>            Jacob
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