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Existing LCI database systems are working, with increasing success, to solve
problems of data interchange between themselves, but progress in this direc-
tion needs to continue. Many issues, often very complex issues, are left to be
resolved, such as data ownership. Who owns the data? Anyone who takes
data, updates it, or combines it with other data, can then try to declare it to be
a new dataset and claim ownership of it. What are the significant ownership
and copyright issues? Who owns the data sharing process? How can shared
data be protected? How can such conflicts be resolved? Global coordination
among LCI dataset developers and LCA database managers will be crucial
together with capacity building and data mining to move toward a world with
interlinked databases and overall accessibility to credible data.

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