The Protection of Database Copyright in the Era of Big Data
Yali Cheng · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2020
Abstract The development of computer technology, mobile intercommunication, cloud computing and Internet of things embraces a limitless prospect for the application of big data. The paper reviews the definition of big data and summarizes the design features by proposing “the Five-Star Feature Model”. The paper then takes the protection of English corpus constructed in China as one special kind of big data to demonstrate the necessity of establishing a comprehensive protection legal system by revealing the setbacks of the Copyright Law in China. With reference to academic literature in China and other regulations in Western countries concerning copyright protection of database, the author finally recommends the complementary use of Law of the PRC against Unfair Competition for the commercial use of these corpora and further proposes to set a new special database right to guarantee the balance of copyright protection and public use of these big data.