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New theories of database protection

Managing IP Correspondent
March 01, 2003
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In recent years courts in the US have extended trespass to chattels and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to online databases. Jonathan Band warns that this could threaten constitutionally imposed limits on the ownership of information

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