Fort Lauderdale Agreement
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The Fort Lauderdale Agreement is a set of guidelines for fair use of community resource data (particularly generated by large-scale genome sequencing projects) as detailed in the publication produced from the Fort Lauderdale Meeting, 2003.
Essentially, the agreement reaffirms a balance between fair use (i.e. no pre-emptive publication) and early disclosure.