New from the Digital Curation Centre: Intellectual Property Rights (UK) in Databases
By Mags McGinley, University of Edinburgh

Databases are an integral part of digital curation whether as part of the toolkit for curating data or as entities to be curated themselves. Ownership of the intellectual property in a database and the associated rights this provides will have a significant effect on what curation acts can be carried out in relation to a database. A clear understanding of what these rights are, when they arise and how they operate will be beneficial for practitioners. The benefits will be gained not only in terms of avoiding infringement of third party rights but in being able to recognise the rights they themselves hold, thereby maximising the potential for access, exploitation and dissemination.

Source: DCC

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