Article 21 Intellectual property rights policy and data policy

The term ‘intellectual property’ shall be understood according to Article 2 of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organisation signed on 14 July 1967.

The Organisation shall be the owner of all intellectual property emanating from setting up and running the ESS including, but not limited to, intellectual property produced by staff employed by the Organisation, except where covered by separate contractual agreements or where mandatory legislation or these Statutes state otherwise.

In general open access shall be favoured for data collected as a result of the use of the ESS facility and, to the extent possible in case of software and computer programs created by the Organisation, open-source principles shall be considered.

The Organisation shall adopt its own data and intellectual property rights policy.