> pointing out that there is nothing keeping students from doing with stimuli what others have been doing with stimuli and scales, etc for a while now. "Here they are, but you can't use them without our permission."
2) I was under the impression that text (manuscripts) and stimuli both have the same rules, i.e., they are both automatically copyrighted and belong to somebody (uni or author(s)/creator(s)), right?
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1) depends on Uni policy - Cardiff’s is more generous to students actually because they are bound to leave, I think. 2) yes, by default, unless Uni policy treats them differently.
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I'm fairly certain at UCL that all stuff a student creates as part of their PhD belongs to UCL (and perhaps like you say can be, or is, given back). I think there is no difference between employee and student intellectual property rights for, e.g., stimuli.
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That means that it's hard to argue given intellectual property law (not y/our ethical judgment) that the stimuli should be kept private based on just the student's wishes given "their" creations actually first belong to UCL.
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This makes me sceptical of the decision to keep them private or keep them copyrighted under a limiting license especially if created using public funds at a publicly funded institution.
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That being said, I'm not sure this can be a hard and fast rule. There must be exceptional cases where the stimuli must be kept private, I just can't think of any.
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If you use someone else’s stimuli, and they don’t give you permission to share
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I have some stimuli that can't be shared publicly (because they form a memory test, small set, very difficult to produce/evaluate), so anyone who uses them has to agree not to share with anyone else. Not uncommon issues, I suspect.
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BTW our university lawyer told me - I think - that IP created by students remains their property by default.
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Based on 2)'s answer being "yes", surely the same arguments for making the manuscript open access would apply to make the stimuli open too, right?
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