Reference data and your own
Materials database software: whose data is it?
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Materials database software holds two kinds of data at once: the vendor's reference values and the measurements a customer adds. The terms treat them very differently.
Reference data belongs to the database
Total Materia's terms say the materials, information and other content in its website, platform and standalone products are proprietary to and owned by Total Materia AG. Values copied from it into an internal sheet do not become the copier's to sell.
Source: Materials database software data terms
Your own measurements stay yours, where the terms say so
Schrödinger's end user licence agreement says the licensee retains all ownership and intellectual property rights in its own content, information and data. 8 of the 11 vendors on our board state no rule either way in the documents we read.
Source: Materials database software data terms
Open repositories come with a licence attached
The Materials Project and NOMAD both put downloaded content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and the Project reminds users that its GNoME structures are licensed for non-commercial purposes only.
Source: Materials database software data terms
Where the law already sets a price on test data, see REACH data sharing.