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Economic Justification For Sui Generis Databases, Chana Rungrojtanakul

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

This article explores important economic mechanisms and competition law that have been used to promote the competitiveness of the database industries. Section II explains fundamental economic theories that lead to an understanding of the concept of an efficient and perfect competition within the database industries. Section III analyzes judicial decisions of the two economic parties, the European Union and the United States of America, that apply competition law to create a fair reproduction and dissemination of factual contents and to prevent unfair competition derived from an attempt to dominate the free flow of contents in the market. Section IV examines …