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Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options (1999)
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON PROMOTING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLICY OPTIONS

3:00

E.1 Summary overview of existing and proposed IPR regimes for databases

  • The status quo

  • Sui generis property rights model

  • Unfair competition/misappropriation model

Moderator: Harvey Perlman, Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska

Speaker: Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress

3:45

E.2 Summary of federal government information law and data policies

Speaker: Justin Hughes, Attorney, Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce

4:00

F. Breakout sessions on the existing legal and technical situation

4:15

Individual breakout sessions

1) Government-sector data panel

Moderator: Shelton Alexander, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Rapporteur: Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor, UC Berkeley

Panelists:

  • Barbara Ryanx, Associate Director of Operations, U.S. Geological Survey

  • James Ostell, Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM/NIH

  • Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Kenneth Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center

2) Not-for-profit-sector data panel

Moderator: Maureen Kelly, Vice President for Planning, BIOSIS

Rapporteur: Jerome Reichman, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

Panelists:

  • James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico

  • Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

  • James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

  • David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, UCAR

3) Commercial-sector data panel

Moderator: Robert Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Rapporteur: Mark Stefik, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC

Panelists

  • Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

  • Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

  • Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

  • Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

5:45

ADJOURN

5:45 - 6:45

RECEPTION (in the main lobby of the Department of Commerce)

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Front Matter (R1-R8)
Contents (R9-R10)
Part I—Workshop Presentations (1-1)
1 Introductory Remarks (2-2)
2 Keynote Address (3-5)
3 Characteristics of Scientific and Technical Databases (6-100)
4 Economic Forces in the Production, Dissemination, and Use of Scientific and Technical Databases (101-110)
5 Overview of Technologies for Protecting and for Misappropriating Digital Intellectual Property Rights: The Current Situation and Future Prospects (111-121)
6 Legal and Policy Issues (122-137)
Part II—Discussion Sessions on the Current and Legal and Technical Situation (138-138)
7 Government-Sector Data (139-152)
8 Not-for-Profit-Sector Data (153-169)
9 Commerical-Sector Data (170-185)
Part III—Discussion Sessions on the Potential Impacts of Legislation and Assessments of Policy Options (186-186)
10 A Strong Property Rights Model for Protecting Databases (187-217)
11 An Unfair Competition Model for Protecting Databases (218-250)
12 Promoting Access to and Use of Government-Sector Scientific and Technical Data—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options (251-281)
13 Promoting Access to and Use of Not-for-Profit Scientific and Technical Data—An Assessment of Legal and Policy Options (282-306)
14 Final Plenary Discussion (307-313)
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Study Committee and Workshop Speakers and Panelists (314-327)
Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants (328-336)
Appendix C: Raw Knowledge: Protecting Technical Databases for Science and Industry (337-376)
Appendix D: Acronyms (377-379)