A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases (1999)
Chapter: Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings-Listing of Contents
APPENDIX C
Workshop Proceedings—Listing of Contents
Part I— Workshop Presentations
1 Introductory Remarks
Robert Serafin
2 Keynote Address
Q. Todd Dickinson
3 Characteristics of Scientific and Technical Databases
Geographic Data Panel
Genomic Data Panel
Chemical and Chemical Engineering Data Panel
Meteorological Data Panel
4 Economic Factors in the Production, Dissemination, and Use of Scientific and Technical Databases
Richard Gilbert
NOTE: For the full text of the committee's Proceedings, see National Research Council (1999), Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., available only online at <http://www.nap.edu>.
5 Overview of Technologies for Protecting and for Misappropriating Digital Intellectual Property Rights: The Current Situation and Future Prospects
Mark Stefik and Teresa Lunt
6 Legal and Policy Issues
Summary Overview of Existing and Proposed Intellectual Property Rights Regimes for Databases, Marybeth Peters
Summary of Federal Government Information Law and Data Policies, Justin Hughes
Part II— Discussion Sessions on the Current Legal and Technical Situation
7 Government-Sector Data
8 Not-for-Profit-Sector Data
9 Commercial-Sector Data
Part III— Discussion Sessions on the Potential Impacts of Legislation and Assessments of Policy Options
10 A Strong Property Rights Model for Protecting Databases
11 An Unfair Competition Model for Protecting Databases
12 Promoting Access to and Use of Government-Sector Scientific and Technical Data—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options
13 Promoting Access to and Use of Not-for-Profit-Sector Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options
14 Final Plenary Discussion
Appendixes
A Biographical Sketches of Study Committee and Workshop Speakers and Panelists
B Workshop Agenda and Participants
C Raw Knowledge: Protecting Technical Databases for Science and Industry, Stephen M. Maurer, Attorney-at-Law
D Acronyms
