Google.org is one of the funding partners supporting this call. Some awards may be funded using Google.org funds, which require recipients to comply with the following open-access and intellectual property requirements.
Projects that do not wish to accept these conditions remain fully eligible for consideration by Schmidt Sciences, ARIA, and the Cooperative AI Foundation, but may not be eligible to receive Google.org funding.
Google.org requirements:
- Place any code or other inventions created using Google.org Funding under the Apache 2.0 license (https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) within three (3) months of creation.
- Place any other intellectual property (e.g., creative works that are not code, or patentable) under the CC-BY 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) within three (3) months of creation;
- Ensure all intellectual property is made freely available and searchable by major Internet search engines;
- For any intellectual property rights (including patent and trade secret rights) not licensed by the eligible organization under the licenses above, the eligible organization will place such intellectual property in the public domain;
- Refrain from filing any patent applications in connection with any intellectual property created with Google.org Funding;
- Ensure any data created with Google.org Funding is made freely available and searchable by major internet search engines, subject to any applicable data privacy laws; and
- Ensure all projects using Google.org Funding comply with the Google AI Principles.
Applicants can opt-in or out of these Google.org requirements in the application form.
