Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law.
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Oxenham, S. Legal confusion threatens to slow data science. Nature 536, 16–17 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/536016a
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/536016a