Fred Friend has written a very nice report for the Knowledge Exchange (a joint JISC-SURF-DFG-DEEF initiative) examining  intellectual property issues in research outputs. The report covers both journal publications arising from funded research and issues related to underlying data. You can download the report from this page, which also provides some additional background

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=516


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI