Conclusions – Data Ownership

• Faculty and staff often have different attitudes and beliefs about data ownership.

• Only 1 person out of 100 indicated that the author of an email, not the recipient, holds the copyright. Most people look at incoming email as their own.

• [click] Faculty and staff often have different attitudes and beliefs about data ownership. I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that faculty tend to think of their research data, in particular, as belonging to them.

• [click] Only 1 person out of 100 indicated that the author of an email, not the recipient, holds the copyright (and that one person was a faculty member involved in research). Most people look at incoming email as their own.