Student Projects:Database Protection:Project Description
===Title:=== Legislated Database Protection: Is It Working?
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Team Members:
- Damon May (UW)
- Don Totten (UW)
- David Moss (UW)
- Elijah Esquibe (UCB)
- Charistel Ticong (UCB)
Description of Topic:
In this project we will explore the existing legislation protecting databases from unauthorized copying and use. We will investigate both the form and the effects of such legislation in the EU and in the US. We will discuss legislation that has not yet been implemented and compare it with the existing legislation that is beginning to have a track record.
These types of protection are in their infancy, and so there are a great variety of approaches to the problem, all of them largely untried and therefore, in a sense, equally valid. We will attempt to make a comparison between these different approaches and formulate an opinion as to the approach that best protects what it intends to protect while not placing undue restrictions on the scientific community.
The Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases
We will begin with a discussion of the existing legislation most directly applicable to the topic of database protection, and with the longest track record; namely, the Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases adopted by the EU. We will examine the protections that this Directive creates in detail and then judge it by its works, by going through some of the court cases that have arisen from this legislation. We will then compare the Directive with some proposed House Resolutions that have yet to be adopted by the United States.
HIPAA
Something something HIPAA.
What Do We Protect
Something something What Do We Protect.
TBD (David)
Something something ???
Summary
Our goal is to summarize the current state of Database Protection legislation, examine some proposed legislations that have not yet come into being, and select from among these various protections the approach to database protection that we feel best fosters innovation while restricting legitimate scientific research as little as possible.
