A Serpent Eating Its Tail: The Database Directive Meets the Open Data Directive
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چکیده
As part of its broader digital strategy, the European Commission has articulated a data strategy. Its aim is to help grow “the use of, and demand for, data-enabled products services throughout Single Market”. In eyes EC, promoting wider availability would stimulate not just “greater productivity competitive markets, but also improvements in health well-being, environment, transparent governance convenient public services”. That quite shopping list. The strategy ramifications for intellectual property law, especially sui generis database right enshrined 1996 Database Directive.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2195-0237', '0018-9855']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-021-01049-7