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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Minimize database rights to favour access to and use of digital works. National policymakers should review existing sui generis database rights or similar rights, when they exist, in order to avoid limiting access and use of public domain works. Proposal 4. Proposal 9.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

With a focus on EU and US approaches to the issue, Musker suggests arguments that may be useful to litigants in similar situations. The authors look at the issue from the perspective of US and EU approaches to database protection. Sundara Rajan devotes Chapter 11 to the overlap between moral and economic rights of authors.