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If an image is included in an abstract which is published at a conference, does that mean the conference must give permission if it's used in a paper?
I'm advising some students preparing abstracts proposing posters at an international conference.
I was just asked about putting images in the abstract that represent data. It's a photograph of a ...
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Are data that can be obtained from the text of a report considered to be in the public domain?
I have been working with some data from a technical report that is freely available online as a PDF document from the website of the institution that published the report. I've cut and pasted the ...
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Non-Disclosure Agreement & Data Publication
I am an Industrial Ph.D. and the company involved in my Ph.D. provides data for my research.
I signed an NDA with the company since the data comes from proprietary source I cannot disclose.
The main ...
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Who owns the copyright of the acquisition of an object or sample owned by a third party?
Our lab performed 3D scans of materials (e.g. metals, rocks etc.) produced by other institutions and universities. But I am also interested in other analyses.
I was wondering who has the copyright on ...
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Show examples of public dataset in master thesis
So I'm currently in the final phase of my master thesis and started writing a few days ago. My thesis bases its work on a public dataset (the authors published it on GitHub an state in their paper ...
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Permission on reproduction of data extracted from a figure
I have been studying a recent paper, and wanted to extract the some data from it, in an effort to reproduce it. I wrote to the authors, and got no response, so I got the raw data by digitalizing a ...
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Usage of Videos or Images from Youtube/ Google-images as data source
I'm working on a deep neural network research application Does usage of youtube videos or google images as data source cause a sharing-data, ethical, copyright or commercial problem? The aim of the ...
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Is it ok to publish a picture from a dataset without permission?
I am writing up some research I did using a Kaggle dataset:
https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats
I want to include one or two images from the dataset in my paper to show the types of images I'm ...
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Can I scan data from a paper for my own research?
I am a PhD student working in mechanical properties of materials and will be finishing soon. My PhD is in numerical modelling, so I need experimental data (stress-strain curves) to validate my ...
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If something is publicly visible in the Internet, does it mean I can use it for research? [duplicate]
I am talking about images in particular. If I collect a dataset for non-profit purposes (research) and an image is publicly available for anyone on the web (i.e. I can see it in google image search ...
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Open data and copyrights for a thesis
In my thesis, I am using other people's open data, and I cut and paste the description of it and reference its source and its copyright (if it is identifiable in the source).
My question is if that'...
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Public dataset without license: what is allowed?
Many public scientific datasets are accompanied by a license, for example variations of Creative Commons are used quite often. However, in many cases public academic datasets lack any licensing ...
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Copyright – use of images to train algorithm
I am working on a university project about computer vision. Part of my work requires object recognition, for which I would use cascade classifiers. These cascade classifiers need to be “taught” what ...
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Can I use data and images found online in my project report, under the fair use clause in copyright law?
I am a mechanical engineering graduate student, and am working on my final project. I am doing a finite element analysis of a particular phenomenon. I was hoping to find test data of that particular ...
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Ownership of the code
My advisor sets the problem. I implement the solution for this particular problem and for the set of similar problems using a programming language.
My question is, can I put the code in the public ...
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