Licensing ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** If you decide to share your outputs publicly, you should consider licensing your work so t re-users know what they can and cannot do with your work. Czech law does not allow the aut their personal (moral) rights, i.e., using a waiver (e.g., CC0 license [ URL "https://crea share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"] ).  ****************************************************************************************** * When can you license your data? ****************************************************************************************** If you decide to license your work, you need to make sure that you have the right to do so if the work was created by more than one person, you need to obtain permission from your c to license it. If the work was created as part of the performance of work duties, then, ac to §58 of the Copyright Act [ URL "https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2000-121#cast1-hlava1-d the economic rights are typically exercised by the employer. The issue of exercising prope at Charles University is resolved through the Rector’s Directive no. 17/2018 [ URL "https: UKEN-796.html"] , which relates to literary work such as scientific or academic articles, author to represent the employer when granting gratuitous licenses to such work. Licensing can be slightly more complicated and may require consulting a specialist, as data are not by copyright. This OpenAIRE guide [ URL "https://www.openaire.eu/how-do-i-know-if-my-resea protected"]  will help you get acquainted with the issue of the ownership of rights in res the Czech Republic, licensing databases is mainly covered in the Copyright Act §§88-94 [ U www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2000-121#cast1-hlava3"] . You can find more information on licensi protected by copyright in the Civil Code [ URL "https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2012-89#ca oddil5-pododdil2"]  (No. 89/2012 Sb.).  ****************************************************************************************** * How to choose an appropriate license? ****************************************************************************************** Before considering your licensing options, you should check whether you are required or st to use a certain type of license (e.g., as a condition given by a funder or a publisher). identified any restrictions, you can apply any license to your work; however, it is advisa of the ready-made, standardised licenses that will give you greater legal certainty. The b most widely used open licenses are Creative Commons 4.0 [ URL "https://creativecommons.org work/licensing-examples/"] , which are popular due to their variability and international  and can be used for publications as well as research data. This guide, [ URL "http://www.d default/files/documents/publications/reports/guides/How_To_License_Research_Data.pdf"]  pr DCC, will help you attach the license to your dataset.   *========================================================================================= * Creative Commons 4.0 *========================================================================================= By applying a Creative Commons (CC) license, the author grants some of their rights to pot while reserving others. Before applying a CC license to your work, please note that these irrevocable.   CC licenses consist of different elements that can be combined to form six different types which vary according to the rights which the author grants and which they reserve. Below i the six different CC licenses ranked from the most accommodating to the most restrictive ( the Creative Commons website [ URL "https://creativecommons.org/"] ).  1.Attribution (CC BY): This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon y commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.  2.Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations unde terms.  3.Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND): This license allows for redistribution, commercial commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.  4.Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC): This license lets others remix, tweak, and build u but only non-commercially, with credit to you.  5.Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA): This license lets others remix, twea upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creati identical terms.  6.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND): This license is the most restrict main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.  You can use this flowchart [ URL "http://creativecommons.org.au/content/licensing-flowchar by the Creative Commons Australia, to help you choose an appropriate license for your work [ URL "https://creativecommons.org/choose/"]  which, upon answering simple questions, gene license for you.  When licensing data and databases using CC, it is recommended to avoid the NoDerivative (N it would substantially limit most types of reuse, basically only allowing checking that th set derive from each other as claimed.  *========================================================================================= * Open Data Commons *========================================================================================= Open Data Commons [ URL "https://opendatacommons.org/index.html"]  (ODC) licenses are simi Creative Commons but, as they are designed specifically for databases, they are suited to research data. ODC provide two basic types of licenses:  1.ODC Attribution (ODC-BY): This license allows others to copy, distribute and use the dat produce works from it and to modify, transform and build upon it for any purpose (even c the condition that the author is credited for the original data.  2.ODC Open Database (ODC-ODbL): This license is the same as ODC-BY with an added copyleft which means that new databases derived from the licensed database have to be published u or compatible license. The other condition is that technological restrictions such as Di Management (DRM) mechanisms can only be applied to a new database if an alternative copy restrictions is made equally available. This license is slightly more flexible than the ****************************************************************************************** * Public domain ****************************************************************************************** The most open way of publishing your work is through a dedication to the public domain. Th copyright interests are waived, and the work may be used freely for any purposes without t the author. The licenses that serve for dedicating the work to the public domain are for e Commons Zero [ URL "https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"]  (CC0 Commons Public Domain Dedication [ URL "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/index.ht However, under the Czech law, the author’s personal rights cannot be waived and the author credited. It is therefore recommended to use the CC-BY license for authored works to avoid CC0 license would eventually be interpreted as a CC-BY. You may use a CC0 license or ODC-P licensing a database you have compiled.  ****************************************************************************************** * Useful Resources ****************************************************************************************** Myška et al. 2014. Veřejné licence v České republice [ URL "https://is.muni.cz/repo/120334 _Verejne_licence_2.0_-_online.pdf"] . Brno: Masarykova Univerzita.  ALA. 2020. Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians [ URL "https://creativecommons.or for-educators-and-librarians-is-available/"] . Chicago: ALA  Foster: Open Licensing [ URL "https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/learning/open-licensing/"] Ball, Alex (DCC). 2014. How to License Research Data [ URL "http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/def documents/publications/reports/guides/How_To_License_Research_Data.pdf"]    OpenAIRE. How do I know if my research data is protected? [ URL "https://www.openaire.eu/h my-research-data-is-protected"]  Guides for Researchers.