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 …

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 …

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 …

Imagine sending a magazine article to 10 friends-making photocopies, putting them in
envelopes, adding postage, and mailing them. Now consider how much easier it is to send …

At least since Blackstone and John Locke, legal and political commentators have
recognized the central role that property plays in market economies and democracies …

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

There is an increasing concern about the implications of recent and impending legislation
on the future of academic research, open science, traditional knowledge, and the intellectual …

We are in the midst of an information arms race with multiple sides battling for larger shares
of the global knowledge pool. The records of scholarly communication, the foundations of an …

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal
foundation for the" global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an …