Scientific names of organisms: Attribution, rights, and licensing

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Patterson, David J ^a,b   Egloff, Willi ^b   Agosti, Donat ^b   Eades, David ^d   Franz, Nico ^a   Hagedorn, Gregor ^c   Rees, Jonathan A ^e   Remsen, David P ^f  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Plazi   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^e NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^f MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Copyright; Intellectual property rights; Name based infrastructure; Scientific names; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LICENSING; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLISHING; REGISTER; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; COPYRIGHT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONALITY; LICENSURE; OWNERSHIP; PUBLISHING; REGISTRIES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893199869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-79     Document Type: Article

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