COMMENT COLUMN: THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF INFORMATION COMPRISED IN SOFTWARE AND DATABASES

✍ Scribed by Simon Chalton

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 78 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(00)05002-0

✦ Synopsis

Throughout this mIllennium year CLSR is inviting leading practitioners to comment on some aspect of IT law or policy that is of interest to them. In the fifth such contribution Simon Chalton looks at how the law has attempted to protect information in the information age and what more must be done if the needs of the commercial community are to be met.