This book focuses on database law (a branch of intellectual property law) and further explores the legal protection currently available for data and data-related products in India. It offers a comparative study of the position of copyright law in protecting databases in the US and EU, while also presenting responses from the Indian database industry and its aspirations regarding the role of copyright law in database protection.

India is undoubtedly leading the way as a knowledge economy. Its strengths are its information technology capability and its knowledge society, as well as its booming database industry - aspects that also necessitate the study of the role of law, as well as the protection of data and databases, in India.

This book examines the growing importance of copyright law for protecting databases as well as for ensuring access in information societies. The book concludes with a discussion of key principles to be kept in mind in the context of drafting legalregimes for databases in India that will both benefit the database industry and ensure accessibility.

Autorentext

Mr. Anirban Mazumder, a graduate of Calcutta University, received his LL.B. from Burdwan University. He went on to complete his LL.M. at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and his M Phil at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta. He has been awarded a Ph.D. by the National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta.

He specializes in Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law, teaching both subjects at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Mr. Mazumder, a Fellow of the Max Plank Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich, has been a Visiting Scholar at the Touro Law School, New York University, and Cardiff University. He has also been a Cegla Scholar at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the Principal Investigator in both a UGC Major Research Project and a Judicial Academy Project, and is a Visiting Professor at the West Bengal University of Technology and International Management Institute. Dr. Mazumder is one ofthe members of the Expert Committee on Utility Model, constituted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India. He is also a member of the Copyright Enforcement Advisory Council, constituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Information, Property & Protection.- 3. Copyright, Access & Information Society.- 4. Copyright, Databases, and protection.- 5. Database Protection- European Experience.- 6. Aborted American Attempts.- 7. Indian database Industry and Legal regime.- 8. Conclusion.