There is a serious threat that ill-considered government support for expanding legal means
of controlling access to information for the purpose of extracting private economic rents is …

Radical legal innovations in intellectual property protection have been introduced by the
little noticed European Database Directive of March 1996. This initiative, part of the larger …

Radical legal innovations in intellectual property protection have been introduced by the
little noticed European Database Directive of March 1996. This initiative, part of the larger …

legallyspeaking right law) to deal with digital technology issues. The purpose of this column
is to explain the principal policy issues with which these documents are grappling, as well as …

The progress of scientific and technological knowledge is a cumulative process, one that
depends in the long-run on the rapid and widespread disclosure of new findings, so that …

The impacts of the New Economy are not limited only to recently developed technologies,
but involve new opportunities for more “traditional” technologies to develop. Knowledge …

EC research programmes are promoting collaborative scientific research in general
and'integrated Internet-based collaborations' in particular. New intellectual property rights …

The issue of intellectual property and knowledge transfer from universities and public
research organizations (PROs) stirs heated debate and is the object of strong policy interest …

The presence of a robust public domain is an essential precondition for cultural, social and
economic development and for a healthy democratic process. But the public domain is …

The body of scientific and technical data and information (STI) 1 in the public domain in the
United States is massive and has contributed broadly to the economic, social, and …