Libraries strategy has been to implement tactics that slow down the process and create time to introduce our issues and be heard. The Geneva Conference of 1996, which Neal attended, was working on international treaties that would update copyright, particularly as it regards digital objects, protection for sound recordings, and protection for databases. One comment came from Bill Arms who suggested that Section 105 of the Copyright Law of 1976 be extended to all things funded by the U. S. Government. Interesting idea, isnt it. He opened by telling us that defining what a database is , is a challenge in writing laws to protect them.
Band describe a little history of database protection.
Congress chose to protect creativity over industrious in its 1976 law. An important legal term applies to Database Protection and Band mentioned it throughout the rest of his talk. Band reviewed some of the legal issues on the international scene as regards sui generis protection of databases. There are arguments for and against creating new laws. It seems that there already laws on the books around the world that give sui generis protection but others argue that there is not sufficient protection.