The legal protection of databases : a comparative analysis /

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Author / Creator:	Derclaye, Estelle, 1974-
Imprint:	Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 362 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Databases -- Law and legislation -- United States. Copyright -- Databases -- United States. Databases -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries. Copyright -- Databases -- European Union countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12241906

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Other authors / contributors:	Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISBN:	9781847209986 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-329) and index.
Summary:	The protection of the investment made in collecting, verifying or presenting database contents is still not harmonised internationally. Some laws over-protect database contents, whilst others under-protect them. This book examines and compares several methods available for the protection of investment in database creation - namely, intellectual property, unfair competition, contract and technological protection measures - in order to find an adequate type and level of protection. To this effect, the author uses criteria based on a combination of the economics of information goods, the human rights to intellectual property and to information, and the public interest, proposing a model that can be adopted at international and national levels.
Other form:	1847201334 (hbk.) 9781847201331 (hardback)

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