An economic analysis of policies for the protection and reuse of noncopyrightable database contents

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 199-232

  Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Madnick, Stuart E ^b   Siegel, Michael D ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Financial Services Special Interest Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Data reuse; Database protection; Intellectual property; Non copyrightable data

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPETITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; PUBLIC POLICY; TECHNOLOGY;

DATA EXTRACTION; DATA REUSE; DATABASE CONTENTS; DATABASE CREATION; DATABASE PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; FREE-RIDING; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LEGAL PROTECTION; NON-COPYRIGHTABLE DATA; POLICY ADMINISTRATION; POLICY CHOICES; SPATIAL COMPETITION; VALUE-ADDED SERVICES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 49149102969     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250108     Document Type: Article

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