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Ownership and authorship of content created with and by Citizen Scientists

Involving the public in research projects can come in many forms, from opening up research agendas for local communities or society at large to shape them and set priorities through the many forms of co-creation to simply relying on user-generated content as research data, such as book reviews on Goodreads. Such collaboration dynamics define good practices in dealing with intellectual property issues.

To start with the scenario that falls closest to simply reusing resources generated by third-parties, the following guide on copyright and user-generated content is indicative.

For more co-creation based scenarios, you can find advice and good examples regarding how to decide on sharing ownership and authorship as well as their ethical entailments in the PARTHENOS Citizen Science training module here and here.