The European Commission opens the consultation for the Data Act & amended rules on the legal protection of databases, aiming to ensure proportionate participation in the value of using data between businesses, consumers and public bodies. The initiative seeks to facilitate access to data and review the rules on the legal protection of databases, to balance the rights to access data and the incentives to invest in data within the current data protection rules. The proposed Act would provide a framework for the accessing and sharing of data. Specifically, the Act set out under which circumstances data may be used to produce value, with a focus on data access rights.
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