Who owns the Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright in deposited data?
Data are deposited with the History Data Service with a non-exclusive licence for use in research and teaching. This means that intellectual property rights and copyright are retained by the copyright holder(s) and that the depositor grants the History Data Service the necessary permissions to preserve and disseminate the data for use in research and teaching. You can only deposit data and grant these permissions if you are the copyright holder or are authorised to do so by the copyright holder(s). Copyright and other intellectual property rights must be clearly established before a data collection is deposited.
