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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings-Listing of Contents." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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APPENDIX C
Workshop
Proceedings—Listing of Contents

Part I— Workshop Presentations

1 Introductory Remarks

Robert Serafin

2 Keynote Address

Q. Todd Dickinson

3 Characteristics of Scientific and Technical Databases

Geographic Data Panel

Genomic Data Panel

Chemical and Chemical Engineering Data Panel

Meteorological Data Panel

4 Economic Factors in the Production, Dissemination, and Use of Scientific and Technical Databases

Richard Gilbert

NOTE: For the full text of the committee's Proceedings, see National Research Council (1999), Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., available only online at <http://www.nap.edu>.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings-Listing of Contents." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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5 Overview of Technologies for Protecting and for Misappropriating Digital Intellectual Property Rights: The Current Situation and Future Prospects

Mark Stefik and Teresa Lunt

6 Legal and Policy Issues

Summary Overview of Existing and Proposed Intellectual Property Rights Regimes for Databases, Marybeth Peters

Summary of Federal Government Information Law and Data Policies, Justin Hughes

Part II— Discussion Sessions on the Current Legal and Technical Situation

7 Government-Sector Data

8 Not-for-Profit-Sector Data

9 Commercial-Sector Data

Part III— Discussion Sessions on the Potential Impacts of Legislation and Assessments of Policy Options

10 A Strong Property Rights Model for Protecting Databases

11 An Unfair Competition Model for Protecting Databases

12 Promoting Access to and Use of Government-Sector Scientific and Technical Data—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options

13 Promoting Access to and Use of Not-for-Profit-Sector Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options

14 Final Plenary Discussion

Appendixes

A Biographical Sketches of Study Committee and Workshop Speakers and Panelists

B Workshop Agenda and Participants

C Raw Knowledge: Protecting Technical Databases for Science and Industry, Stephen M. Maurer, Attorney-at-Law

D Acronyms

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings-Listing of Contents." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings-Listing of Contents." National Research Council. 1999. A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9692.
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New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products, and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries.

A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. Nevertheless, although the committee opposes the creation of any strong new protective measures, it recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary. In particular, a new, properly scoped and focused U.S. statute might provide a reasonable alternative to the European Union's highly protectionistic database directive. Such legislation could then serve as a legal model for an international treaty in this area. The book recommends a number of guiding principles for such possible legislation, as well as related policy actions for the administration.

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