Findings: Intellectual Property

• Intellectual property protocols that faculty follow after creating software, portals or databases are highly correlated to the discipline.

  • In disciplines where things move quickly, the ideal method is to open source one's tool to obtain an audience, then later align oneself with a company, or start one;

  • In disciplines where there is a lot of money there is pressure to ensure patents are filed.

• Databases, portals and data centers on campus typically all have legal waiver forms, allowing release of the data sets to other researchers as part of the process to ingest the data.

• Disciplines vary in the extent to which they support an ethic of data sharing.