ECOA Licensing: Lessons Learned from the Copyright of COA Translations and Specificities of ECOAS.

For more information, please contact: Caroline Anfray [email protected]  It is worth mentioning that, in 2007, of 3,000 occasions on which developers, publishers, or users of PRO instruments submitted requests for information or asked for help from the Mapi Research Trust’s PRO Information Support Team,1 38% were questions about copyright or conditions of use. The most frequently asked questions were: “Who should be contacted to get permission to use a questionnaire, an existing translation or to develop a new translation of a PRO questionnaire?” or “Who is the copyright holder?” Thirty-four percent were about practical information about the instruments with questions such as: “Is this the latest version of the instrument?”, “Does the translation reflect the original questionnaire?” or “Is the translation validated?”