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Legal Nature Of Emails: A Comparative Perspective, Edina Harbinja
Legal Nature Of Emails: A Comparative Perspective, Edina Harbinja
Duke Law & Technology Review
There is currently a conflict between laws and the market in their treatment of email. Laws mandate that emails are not protected as property unless copyrightable or protected by another legal mechanism. But the market suggests that emails are user-owned property without further qualification. Moreover, the nature of email is treated slightly differently between the U.S. and U.K. legal regimes. While the current legal regimes applicable to email in the U.K. and U.S. are reasonable, legal harmonization within these systems, and with the service provider market, should be achieved.
Sharing By Design: Data And Decentralized Commons, Jorge L. Contreras, Jerome H. Reichman
Sharing By Design: Data And Decentralized Commons, Jorge L. Contreras, Jerome H. Reichman
Faculty Scholarship
Ambitious international data-sharing initiatives have existed for years in fields such as genomics, earth science, and astronomy. But to realize the promise of large-scale sharing of scientific data, intellectual property (IP), data privacy, national security, and other legal and policy obstacles must be overcome. While these issues have attracted significant attention in the corporate world, they have been less appreciated in academic and governmental settings, where solving issues of legal interoperability among data pools in different jurisdictions has taken a back seat to addressing technical challenges. Yet failing to account for legal and policy issues at the outset of a …