The legal protection of databases / Simon Chalton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shalton, Simon, author.

Series:

Thorogood professional insights.

Thorogood Professional Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Databases--Law and legislation--European Union countries.

Databases.

Databases--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Copyright--Databases--European Union countries.

Copyright.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Thorogood, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is this Report about? Inventions can be patented, knowledge can be protected through the law of trade secrets, but information itself? The form or medium of information can be protected by copyright but information itself is more difficult. It cannot be owned. So how can the law effectively protect it? Both the law - and hence the commercial realities - remain uncertain. Professional advisers must at least be fully up to speed with what the law currently says [and doesn't say] and what the implications are. This timely new Special Report examines the current EU [and so EEA] law on the

Contents:

The author; Preface; CONTENTS; Table of cases; Table of statutes, statutory materials and international instruments; 1. Why protect databases?; 2. European Union law and policy in relation to the legal protection of databases; 3. United Kingdom legal protection of databases; 4. International instruments and proposals for the legal protection of databases; 5. Other forms of legal protection for databases; 6. Conclusions; 1 appendix; 2 appendix

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-17408-0

9786610174089

1-4237-1785-6

1-85418-551-9

OCLC:

171581692