Ownership?
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At the conclusion of a three year multi-campus study collecting data on the use of alcohol among undergraduate students, a Dr. Capeless is offered and accepts a research position at an institution which had not participated in the study. Dr. Capeless intends to take the data and continue to run analyses. However, the study's PI, Dr. Brockner is reluctant to allow this. Even though the original multi-site agreement had established data sharing rights and obligations among and between institutions, there was no stipulation for extending that to individual researchers who leave for non-participating institutions. Does the change in position and institution of the researcher call into question accessibility to the data? Should the leaving researcher have access to the data? To whom does the data belong? Taking the role of the researcher, decide to act on one of the following options:
|  | Dr. Brockner refuses to allow Dr. Capeless to take the data, Dr. Capeless concedes and leave without the data?
|  | Dr. Brockner refuses to allow Dr. Capeless to take the data, Dr. Capeless threatens legal action.
|  | Dr. Brockner and Dr. Capeless compromise. Dr. Brockner permits his former colleague to take a select portion of the data for analyses.