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Can I control the use of my data?

If you have copyright or ancillary copyright over research data, you can regulate various aspects of use via appropriate contracts, such as the type and manner of use, user groups and time period, purpose, etc. Since contractual regulations for individual cases would be very time-consuming in practice, there are various solutions for standardised regulations of rights of use. For example, the Leibniz Centre for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID) offers standard contracts for the use of psychological data and GESIS regulates access restrictions for particularly sensitive social science data via user contracts. If you do not want your data to be subject to any specific access or use restrictions, the use of standardised licences such as Creative Commons or Open Data Commons is a good option. (Which licence should I choose?)