Rights in Data Handbook

DLA Piper has released a 46-page report called Rights in Data Handbook: Protecting and Exploiting IP in Data and Databases Internationally.

The report summarizes laws in eleven countries and the European Union on topics such as:

• protection of databases
• protection of personal information in databases
• data use and infringement
• data security and confidentiality

The countries included in the report are Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.