Pub. L. 100-147, tit. III, sec. 307

Sec. 307. Title V of the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “research and development activities of system operators “Sec. 504. Notwithstanding section 601, any system operator under title II, III, or IV of this Act, or any marketing entity under section 503 of this Act, may provide data for any research and development programs if— “(1) a complete and timely disclosure of the results of such research and development is made in the open technical literature or is otherwise made publicly available; “(2) the system operator or marketing entity provides to the Secretary an annual report of all research and development data transactions including the nature of any cooperative agreements and the prices charged for data; and “(3) the data are not used for commercial purposes or in substantial competition with data available from a licensee under this Act.”.