TY  - JOUR
A1  - Minero Alejandre, Gemma
A2  - Tronnier, Frédéric
T1  - Ownership of databases: personal data protection and intellectual property rights on databases
T2  - European review of private law = Revue européenne de droit privé = Europäische Zeitschrift für Privatrecht
N2  - When we think on initiatives on access to and reuse of data, we must consider both the European Intellectual Property Law and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The first one provides a special intellectual property (IP) right – the sui generis right – for those makers that made a substantial investment when creating the database, whether it contains personal or non-personal data. That substantial investment can be made by just one person, but, in many cases, it is the result of the activities of many people and/or some undertakings processing and aggregating data. In the modern digital economy, data are being dubbed the ‘new oil’ and the sui generis right might be con- sidered a right to control any access to the database, thus having an undeniable relevance. Besides, there are still important inconsistences between IP Law and the GDPR, which must be removed by the European legislator. The genuine and free consent of the data subject for the use of his/her data must remain the first step of the legal analysis.
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64578
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-645781
UR  - https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/European+Review+of+Private+Law/29.5/ERPL2021039
SN  - 1875-8371
N1  - This work was supported by PANELFIT, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788039.
N1  - This article was first published in the EUROPEAN REVIEW OF PRIVATE LAW (Vol.29, Nr. 5-2021, [733-756], 2021 Ⓒ Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands).
VL  - 29
IS  - 5
SP  - 733
EP  - 756
PB  - Kluwer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -