Information Privacy/Information Property

Information as Property

Information is quickly becoming one of the main assets in corporate life. This paper attempts to study the relationship between the law and information. The questions posed are (1) can information be considered as property (2) How does this answer effect the legal practitioners and business (3) Is the legal point of view compatible with the everyday actions of business today?

Mixed Metaphors in Cyberspace: Property in Information and Information Systems

Intellectual property information: A comparative analysis of main information providers

After modeling expert user needs with regard to intellectual property information, we analyze and compare the main providers in this specific information area (Thomson DIALOG, Esp@cenet by the European Patent Office, Questel-Orbit, and STN International) in terms of system content and system functionality. The key question is whether the main providers are able to satisfy these expert user need...

Secure Information Flow as a Safety Property

In this paper we argue that, in the perspective of developing “security-minded” programming languages, the secure information flow property should be defined (as well as disciplined access) as a standard safety property, based on a notion of a security error, namely that one should not put in a public location a value elaborated using confidential information. We show that this is the property ...

Electronic information management and intellectual property rights

The paper examines the concept of “digital is different” or not as the case may be and how and if digital publications are different from their paper counterparts. The concept of copyright in a digital age is explored and various different interpretations of the concept and its application discussed. The linguistic problems of using words from a paper-based environment will be considered and su...