The issue of unfair competition has already come up on one of the discuss lists. The new Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data mentions this area of law.
4.1 Converge on the public domain by waiving all rights based on intellectual property
***
Thus, to facilitate data integration and open access data sharing, any implementation of [...]
Unfair competition and the Science Commons protocol
December 18th, 2007 1 Comment
Tags: copyright · Open Access Data Mark · Open Data Commons · Science Commons · unfair competition