IP Law and Policy for the Data Economy in the EU

Abstract The current policy vision for Europe’s digital future centres around facilitating the availability of data by means access, sharing, and portability rights. In existing legal framework, such rights are already foreseen in different instruments. actual practice, however, (horizontal) sharing is governed first place contracts. Currently, well-established business practices non-mandatory model contract terms lacking. To reduce transaction costs chilling effects sector, main task would therefore be to provide a set default rules or soft-law database maker’s sui generis right trade secrets protection, mainstays this area, have potential aggravate access problems hamper efficient regimes. While Trade Secrets Directive as very modern necessarily flexible instrument, on principle, rather well-equipped achieving balanced results, Database imminent need reform, particular even Data Act Proposal leaves many issues unsolved.