Bases de dados de órgãos públicos: o problema do acesso e exploração da informação do sector público na sociedade da informação

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Alexandre Libório Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/28778
• topic: bases de dados; administração; direitos de autor; licenças

Databases of Public Bodies: The Problem of Access to and Exploitation of Information of the Public Sector in the Information Society, in Information Society Law. This paper was written to support the communication presented to the 3rd Post-Graduate Course on Information Society Law organized by the Portuguese Association of Intellectual Law and the Law Faculty of Lisbon. Several issues of databases o public bodies are analysed, in special the problem of access to and exploitation of information of the public sector in the Information Society, having in consideration the Green Paper of the European Commission and the US Electronic Information Freedom Act. To begin with, it is addressed the issue of intellectual property rights over public sector databases. Then, the right of access to public sector databases is considered in the framework of the Portuguese legislation on access to public administration documents as well as special Acts aimed to promote access to public sector information by the Internet. Finally, some critical considerations are addressed to the Green Book of the European Commission, in special in what concerns the reductive perspective of information as merely economic commodity.