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Who Owns Information?

Who Owns Information?

From Privacy To Public Access
May 1995
Trade Paperback · 256 Pages
$17.00 U.S. · $20.50 CAN · £11.99 U.K. · €11.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465091447
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Description

Drawing on eleven case studies, a communications lawyer addresses the issue of who owns information, explaining the ramifications of the ownership of medical records, telephone numbers, personal names, culture, computer software, and more.

About the Author

Anne Wells Branscomb a communications and computer lawyer, is a legal scholar-in-residence at Harvard University's Program on Information Resources Policy. A frequent contributor to both popular and professional journals on the relationship of information technology to the law, she is the editor of Toward a Law of Global Communications Networks.