A Question of Balance: Private Rights and Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases
Автор:National Research Council, National Research Council, Committee for a Study Promoting Access to Scientific, Technical Data for the Public Interest Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0309068258 New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products,and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries. A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. It also recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary.
