At the University of Texas at Dallas the data is owned by the faculty member.

On Fri, 24 Jun 1994, Robert Bienkowski wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Whenever we teach our course in Research Methods for Fellows, the question
> of "Who owns the data?" always comes up.
>
> This is usually not a problem except of course when an investigator leaves
> the institution or the investigator realizes that the data he/she generated
> years ago has commercial value.
>
> So, my question to colleagues on the list is do your institutions have
> EXPLICIT policies about who owns the data... notebooks, logs, dicks, etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bob Bienkowski
> Pediatric Research
> Schneider Children's Hospital
> LIJMC
>
> xxxxxx@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu
>