HR 3261 and the ownership of facts
Posted Jan 29, 2004 12:53 UTC (Thu) by
ordonnateur (guest, #6652)
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HR 3261 and the ownership of facts
Some of your previous posters seem to have confused Data Protection law with that of Database Rights.
Data Protection concerns the use of personal information in databases (and in record keeping systems generally whether computerised or no). It restricts what collectors and maintainers of such data can use it for and who it can be passed on to. It is therefore part of the law on privacy.
Database Rights are a form of copyright, they recognise that compiling a substatial database is not effortless and that the compiler may reasonably expect that effort to be recognised and protected.
Both of the above can of course be abused and subverted so far from the original intention that they may serve only to preserve and extend the position of already powerful and over-protected interests.
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