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A new EU Data Act with rules on who can use and access data generated in the EU across all economic sectors will unlock a wealth of industrial data in Europe, the European Commission said Wednesday.

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") published a proposal for a Data Act which aims at enhancing data access and use within the European Union ("EU").

Today, the Commission proposes new rules on who can use and access data generated in the EU across all economic sectors. The Data Act will ensure fairness …

The big Commission announcement this week (23 February) will be the Data Act (incl. Review of the Database Directive).  The Data Act is described as a major new initiative to ensure fairness by providing better control for data sharing to citizens and businesses, in line with European values. The initiative will aim at facilitating data […]

Recently, I had the privilege of participating in a couple of virtual conferences as a panelist on issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP).

EDI Questions Whether Exchanges Can License Data They Do Not Own Date 01/03/2021 Exchange Data International (EDI) has today released a report that questions whether stock and derivative exchanges have copyright in closing prices, and whether they can license the redistribution of these closing prices.     The report argues that stock and derivative exchanges do not own the copyright in closing prices and nor do they acquire copyright through statements on their websites or in their lice...