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In a world which puts an increasing value on information, databases are likely to be of growing commercial importance. This is because they carry, enable access to , and can be used to generate information which is of value to their users.
The law is ambivalent about the status of information. Knowledge can be protected through the law of trade secrets, inventions can be protected through the patent system and the form or expression of information can be protected by copyright, but information itself is more difficult to protect. Rights of confidence can be owned and transferred, as can patents and copyright, but information cannot be owned. How, then, is the law effective to protect it?
This report is an examination of the current EU (and so EEA) law on the legal protection of database, including the new sui generis right and its UK implementation as database right. The concluding chapter attempts to summarise the present position and to indicate uncertainties which remain. ISBN 9788130903484
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Pages : 150
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