Need for Controlled Vocabularies on Intellectual Property Right statements ? Patricia Mergen, Larissa Smirnova, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Jiri Frank, Narodni Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic

Public Domain: The solution to all your problems ? My Research is so cool, I got the Nobel Prize 5 times ! My Model is so great, I can predict the future till the end of times ! All Animals and Plants Safe and Sound !

The Gollum effect My Precious Data! Mine! My Knowledge! My Expertise ! I will never give it away ! My Precious Data! Mine! My Knowledge! My Expertise ! I will never give it away ! ©New Line Cinema

Data aggregators and portals ? What ? This result is crap ! They did not even use my Precious ! ©New Line Cinema

The most logical thing to do ? Why don’t you add your Precious to improve the system ? ©Paramount Pictures

The most logical thing to do ? Add your Precious to the system and you will Live Long and Prosper ! © Paramount Television

I provided my Precious ! WHAT !!! They used my Precious without asking me ! They did not cite me! And they make money out of it !!! Where is my share ??? WHAT !!! They used my Precious without asking me ! They did not cite me! And they make money out of it !!! Where is my share ??? ©New Line Cinema

Citing your Employer ! We paid for your salary and research for the last 10 years ! Where is our Name ! You forgot our logo again !!! We paid for your salary and research for the last 10 years ! Where is our Name ! You forgot our logo again !!!

Citing your funding agency and sponsors ! Without us you would not even be here ! If you forget our logo one more time we will never sponsor you ever again !

Designing Applications I made a cool application with this awesome new algorithm. I will test it on the GBIF Data !

Have you contacted the Data providers for permission ? Did you check if the authors are dead for more the 70 years ? Do you have an automated citing and feed back mechanism ? Do you have a system to check if the users are non- profit only ? Did you bla bla bla bla bla ….

???? CC0 !! No! CC-BY ! No way! CC-BY-NC No way! CC-BY-NC But CC is not even meant for Data !! Nagoya Protocol ? ABS ??? Nagoya Protocol ? ABS ??? Patents ? Royalties Copyrights ? Fee ! Patents ? Royalties Copyrights ? Fee ! Open Access Open (Linked) Data Open Standards Free use ! Open Access Open (Linked) Data Open Standards Free use !

???? -Convince everyone to Public Domain : Feasible or Utopia ? -Ignore Data with too complicated IPR requirements : Impact on needed datasets, on richness, completeness and usability of the content ? -Analyze the IPR concepts of our standards and have controlled vocabularies to enable automated applications respecting the various terms of use : Feasibility ? Efforts to generate versus the additional data that may be mobilized ?

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