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This Perspective addresses questions and concerns that biologists often have about intellectual property rights in research data and how these interact with the deposition or sharing of data.
UC San Diego won a major legal battle Friday against USC when a judge ruled that control of a landmark project on Alzheimer's disease belongs to the La Jolla school.
UC San Diego has sued USC and a nationally recognized Alzheimer's disease researcher, alleging that they illegally conspired to take federal funding, data and employees from a UC San Diego study center on the illness.
Ever wonder why illnesses give you specific symptoms? Or how those symptoms are created in your body?
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Materials Letters has withdrawn an article in press after the editor found out the first author, Yan Li, had taken all the data without permission. According to the notice, the senior author told t…
We’ve all monkeyed around trying to sort out the ownership of published content. In the scientific community, copyright and its (mis)application in…
By Fred Trotter Who owns a patient's health information? ·The patient to whom it refers? ·The health provider that created it? ·The IT specialist who has the greatest control over it? The notion of ownership is inadequate for health information. For instance, no one has an absolute right to...
Proposed class-action suit says Family Tree violated Alaska Genetic Privacy Act.
Science is in the middle of a range war, or perhaps a skirmish. Ten years ago, I saw a mighty good western called Open Range. Based on the ads, I thought it was just another Kevin Costner vehicle. …
FRED, the most amazing economics website in the world will no longer carry S&P data. The two had been negotiating a licensing agreement.
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the online science community about the data-sharing policies of PLOS journals , including P...
Amid a legal dispute, journal downgrades a retraction to an expression of concern | Retraction Watch
The journal Cell Cycle is expressing a “note” of concern about a 2012 paper by a former researcher at the University of Minnesota, who has claimed that her mentor at the institution was…
How did a star researcher into the medical mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome end up in jail and unemployed. For the first time, Judy Mikovits tells Casey Schwartz her story.