Is there any Copyright in Research Data and why should you care?

"Is there copyright – some say YES, some say NO … we prefer to say ‘ it depends!’ Why should you care? Well, researchers are being asked more and more to re-use research data, share it and make it available for Open Access. Can you share ‘your data’ if someone else owns the copyright? Not without the copyright owner’s permission. But that of course depends on whether the data is even protected by copyright...."