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Reference on Database protection - Selected websites and list of documents related to the database protection

Database Protection: Selected Web Sites

Selected References

CANADA

  • ITAC Information Industry Council and Optima. The information industry in Canada: First National Survey of an Emerging Industry. April 1992, 67 pages.
  • Mackaay, Ejan. "Legal Hybrids: Beyond Property and Monopoly." Columbia Law Review 94, 8 (December 1994), pp. 2630-2643.
  • Moule, Lawrence. "Real Time Goes Big Time. Online Services that Deliver Up-To-The-Minute News And Data Are Booming in Canada." Information Highways 4, 5 (June-July 1997), pp. 17-27.
  • Nabhan,Victor. Droit d'auteur et banques d'information dans l'administration. Québec: Les publications du Québec, 1992, 127 pages.
  • Owens, Richard C. Some legal Issues Concerning Databases and Database Marketing. Canadian Institute Conference. February 27, 1996. Web posting: February 14, 1997.
  • "Report on Data Base Marketing", Globe and Mail, Section C, December 17, 1996.
  • Robertson Nickerson Limited. The Canadian Electronic Database Industry: Impact of Foreign Services and Canadian Competitiveness, Final Report. July 1990, 111 pages.
  • Sookman, B.B. (Report for Canada). "Protection for and vis-à-vis Databases". in Copyright in Cyberspace. ALAI Study days, Amsterdam, June 4-8, 1996. pp. 456-468.

INTERNATIONAL

  • Chalton, Simon. "The Effect of the E.C. Database Directive on United Kingdom Copyright Law in Relation to Databases: A Compilation or Features." European Intellectual Property Review 19, 6 (1997), pp. 278-287.
  • Cornish, W.R.. "1996 European Community Directive on Database Protection." Colombia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts 21 (1996), pp. 1-13.
  • Cornish, W.R.. "General Report: Protection for and vis-à- vis Databases." in Copyright in Cyberspace. ALAI Study days. Amsterdam, June 4-8, 1996. pp. 435-442.
  • Dommering, Egbert J and Hugenholtz, P. Bernt, ed. Protecting works of Fact: Copyright, Freedom of Expression and Information Law, Deventer: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1991, pp. 59-65 and 67-72.
  • Greene, Lisa H. And Steven J. Rizzi. "Database Protection Legislation: Views from the United-States and WIPO.", IP World 37 (January 1997), pp. 8-14 .
  • Grosheide, F.W. "Sui Generis Protection for Databases, The European Way: An Analysis." Fifth Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Fordham University School of Law, New York, April 3-4, 1997, 13 pages.
  • Koumantos, Georges. "Databases in the Community Directive"/ "Les bases de données dans la directive communautaire." Revue Internationale du Droit D'Auteur 171 (January 1997), pp. 79-135.
  • Melnick, W. Joseph. "A Comparative Analysis of Proposals for the Legal Protection of Computerized Databases: NAFTA vs. The European Communities." Case Western Research Journal of International Law 26 (1994), pp. 57-114.
  • National Research Council. Bits of Power. Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data., National Academy Press, 1997, 235 pages.
  • OECD. Economic and Trade Issues in the Computerised Database Market, Coll. Information Computer Communications Policy, Paris: OECD, 1993, pp. 117-127 and 196-201.
  • Powell, Mark. "The European Union's Database Directive: An International Antidote to the Side-Effects of Feist?" 4th Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property and Policy, Fordham University, April 11-12, 1996, pp. 49-104.
  • Reichman, J. H. and P. Samuelson. "Intellectual Property Rights in Data?" Vanderbilt Law Review 50 (January 1997), pp. 51-166.
  • Strowell, A. and J.-P. Triaille. "Le droit d'auteur du logiciel au multimédia. Droit belge, droit européen, droit comparé." Cahiers du Centre de recherches informatique et droit(1997), pp. 231-327.
  • Vivant, Michel. "Protection of Raw Data and Data Banks in France." Protecting Works of Fact: Copyright, Freedom of Expression and Information Law, Egbert J. Dommering and P. Bernt Hugenholtz ed., Deventer: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1991, pp. 73-81 and 456-468.

OTHER REFERENCES

  • "Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases", Official Journal of the European Communities (March 27, 1996), no L 77, pp. 20.
  • Existing National and Regional Legislation Concerning Intellectual Property in Databases.
  • Information Received From Member States Of WIPO Concerning Intellectual Property in Databases
  • US Copyright Office Report on Legal Protection for Databases (August 1997) will remove its linking to a icweb page which is not available to the public
  • (H.R.3531) Proposed House of Representative legislation on database protection
  • Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co. 111 S.Ct. 1282(1991)/ 499 U.S.340(1991)
  • Tele-Direct/T l -Direct (Publications) Inc. v American Business Information Inc., Federal Court of Canada, - Trial Division - T 13373 - June 28, 1996.
  • Hoge Raad. (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) 4 January 1991 (Van Dale Lexicografie BV v. RJ.Romme,/EM),Nederlandse Jurisprudentie (NJ)1991, 608; published in English in: E.J. Dommering & P.B. Hugenholtz (eds.),Protecting Works of Fact, Deventer/Boston, 1991, pp. 93-96.