[Paul Uhlir]

Hi all:
Here is the link to the article that Christoph originally sent. It is also
attached.
Hoeren, Thomas (2014): *Big Data and the Ownership in Data: Recent
Developments in Europe*, *European Intellectual Property Review*, Bd. 2014,
Nr. 12, S. 751-754.
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.itm/hoeren/veroeffentlichungen/Big_Data_…
Big data is a catch word which is used now as a denominator for a variety
of new data processing services. But one “simple” question behind big data
is unsolved: Who owns data? Can data be “owned”? And who is the owner if
data are stored for instance in the data recorder of a car-the car
producer; the car owner; the driver? Property in data seems to contradict
the traditional concepts of civil law which have attributed property to
tangible goods since Roman times. These concepts seem to have become
undermined in the information society. But the first courts in the United
Kingdom and Germany have dealt with the matter and seem to have developed a
new intellectual property right to data.

Big_Data_and_the_Ownership_in_Data.pdf

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