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It’s a research dataset, similar to MNIST or CIFAR. Stanford does not want to be in the business of monetizing patient data, so it restricts commercial use.
by alphaoverlord 5y ago
It’s a research dataset, similar to MNIST or CIFAR. Stanford does not want to be in the business of monetizing patient data, so it restricts commercial use.
- Areading314 5y agoThe datasets are deidentified, so that doesn't seem like a plausible rationale
- nl 5y agoThe issue of monetizing is completely separate to de-identification. Often sources of this type of medical data will give them to universities under the no-commerical-use condition.
- Areading314 5y agoThe reason they do this is so that they can later monetize the dataset.
- nl 5y agoOften, no. It's because if they charge for it the admin of having to pass money back to participating people is prohibitive. Often you can't buy these datasets at any price.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoJust look at how agitated people here are getting at the prospect of GitHub copilot using tiny code snippets from their work for potentially commercial works. Then imagine it’s not your unique way to loop over a file in python, but your medical information.
- the_optimist 5y agoYou just stated a paradox like it makes sense. If you _didn’t_ want to be in the business of monetizing data, while providing data, you _wouldn’t_ restrict commercial use.
- elmolino89 5y agohow broad is the non commercial use clause? I can imagine i.e. some BigPharma buying another datasets and using your data sets for who knows, validation of the acquired ones/metadata improvement etc. No commercial product in the area of imaging/diagnosis but maybe some commercial drug 10-15 years down the road. Do you think that such use is also forbidden by the licence?