Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest An Assessment of Policy Options (1999) / Chapter Skim
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2 Keynote Address
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The result in Feist, and a couple of alarming Circuit Court decisions that have followed it, as well as the European Union's recent development of a new form of intellectual property protection for databases, have caused U.S. commercial database producers to call for some form of legal protection for databases that is separate from copyright.
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In short, ~ think there is a rich vein of analysis about unfair competition in American law that would help us better understand and implement a misappropriation approach to database protection. Let me close with a couple of comments about government information, particularly government-generated scientific and technical data.
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Yet, formulating a clear, workable, U.S. position on database protection, which continues to ensure that government-generated data remain available to the public sector, may be critical in the international area to stave off efforts by other countries to impose conditions and controls on the dissemination of government-generated data.
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