Article: "Data Mine Or Yours?"

Related link: http://www.cioinsight.com/article/0,3658,s=25125&a=25590,00.asp

Interesting copyright developments: There are attempts to create a new type of intellectual property right for proprietary collections of facts, (including recombinations of public domain data). Up until now, a partial recombination of public or private facts into a new database was generally not restricted.