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Intellectual Property Protection for Noncreative Databases.

Analyzes proposals in the 106th Congress for protection against piracy of electronic and other databases on grounds of industrious effort rather than creativity, the basis of current copyright law, and summarizes arguments for and against this new form of intellectual property protection.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1999.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:
Copyright.
Information services.
Intellectual property.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Analyzes proposals in the 106th Congress for protection against piracy of electronic and other databases on grounds of industrious effort rather than creativity, the basis of current copyright law, and summarizes arguments for and against this new form of intellectual property protection.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
CRS Report.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.