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Database Protection: Are Laws Threatening To Destroy Our Building Blocks Of Knowledge?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gladstone, Julia Alpert |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | This paper examines the various regimes that are used to protect databases to suggest that the continued progress of science and technology that has enabled economic prosperity will be fostered by less regulation. The diversity between and within each of these regimes reflects fundamentally different views of intellectual property. Technology, specifically digitalization that has facilitated the creation, replication and easy dissemination of information has changed the value of information and threatens to create a striated society of information "haves" and "have-nots" due to enclosure mechanisms. As technology advances, the laws which we implement to build upon the existing intellectual property infrastructure must be developed with care to preserve the careful balance of the public good and private interest that has maintained the past 200 years of "progress of science and useful arts." The author suggests ways to structure a database to encourage or reward database developers while simultaneously fostering the advancement of science. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.28945/2486 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://proceedings.informingscience.org/IS2002Proceedings/papers/glads206datab.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
