#solo10: Publishers, is your data Openly re-usable – please help us « petermr’s blog

"The problem is copyright, followed by contract. By default copyright prevents you from doing anything with a document. And it’s the law, so that not surprisingly reputable institutions such as universities are absolutely clear that it must not be broken....This is an enormous impediment to data-driven science. Enormous. By default we cannot extract or use any data from the published literature unless there is explicit permission. It’s got to the stage where this problem is seriously holding back science...."