Licensing and IP: Who owns the outputs of SSIA funded impact projects?

Royal Holloway's standard position is that the University owns the outputs of SSIA funded work.

In all outputs, please acknowledge Royal Holloway and the contribution of the ESRC by naming them and including the Royal Holloway logo and SSIA logo in your resources, in addition to the text for one of the following arrangements. Please read the terms associated with each of the arrangements below and decide which best fits your project. The recommendation from the University, is to use arrangement 2.

NB. Even if a partner organisation makes a cash donation to an SSIA project, the University will still own 100% the outputs, but allow the partner to use the outputs under a Creative Commons license: we cannot accommodate requests for joint ownership of materials produced during SSIA funded projects. 

For more information about Creative Commons licenses please see https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/

Arrangement 1 

USE:

The Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence is the most restrictive licence and enables re-users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in un-adapted form only, for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The advantage of this licence is that you retain control over your output, i.e. a re-user cannot modify your output without your written consent or use your output for commercial purposes until Royal Holloway has granted a commercial licence to the re-user. This means that Royal Holloway could obtain licence income a later date. The disadvantage of this licence is that whilst most public bodies are likely to use your output under these terms some companies may not be keen to use your outputs. 

(Replace the details in bold below with information specific to your project).

TEXT: 

This [type of output – i.e., policy brief] was created by [academic name] (Royal Holloway University of London) and [insert partner organisation name] in [year], as part of a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The copyright in this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] belongs to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College and it can be used under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. If you wish to modify this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] or use this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] for commercial purposes, please get in touch with [academic email address] to discuss the terms of a license.

Arrangement 2 

USE:

The Creative Commons CC BY-NC licence is a more permissive licence and enables re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The advantage of this licence is that re-users can adapt your output for their purposes without your permission but cannot use your (adapted) output for commercial purposes until Royal Holloway has granted a commercial licence to the re-user. This means that Royal Holloway could obtain licence income at a later date. The disadvantage of this licence is that whilst most public bodies are likely to use your output under these terms some companies may not be keen to use your outputs. 

(Replace the details in bold below with information specific to your project).

TEXT: 

This [type of output – i.e., policy brief] was created by [academic name] (Royal Holloway University of London) and [insert partner organisation name] in [year], as part of a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The copyright in this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] belongs to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College and it can be used under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license. If you wish to use this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] for commercial purposes, please get in touch with [academic email address] to discuss the terms of a license.

Arrangement 3 

USE:

The Creative Commons CC BY licence is a permissive licence and enables re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.  The advantage of this licence is that re-users can adapt your output for their purposes and can use your (adapted) output for commercial purposes straightaway. This means that body public bodies and companies are likely to use your outputs. The disadvantage of this licence is that you lose control over your output and that Royal Holloway will not be able to obtain any licence income a later date.

(Replace the details in bold below with information specific to your project).

TEXT: 

This [type of output – i.e., policy brief] was created by [academic name] (Royal Holloway University of London) and [insert partner organisation name] in [year], as part of a project which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The copyright in this [type of output – i.e., policy brief] belongs to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College and it can be used under the Creative Commons CC BY license.