• Collections of Information Antipiracy Act (H.R. 2652, S 2291)

  • H.R. 2652, Bill Summary and Status, includes the text of the legislation
  • September 29, 1998 FTC letter to Congress
  • September 22, 1998 Geronimo Letter regarding database legislation
  • September 18, 1998 HyperLaw Memorandum against the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act
  • September 10, 1998 Letter to the Senate from 47 companies and Organizations that Oppose the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, from the Digital Future Coalition web site.
  • August 4, 1998 DOC letter on Problems with S.2291
  • July 28, 1998 DOJ memo on constitutional concerns raised by H.R. 2652O
  • "The End of History", a comment by Jonathan Band et al. on H.R. 2652, from the ARL website.

• Other points of view
  • IIA page in support of the database legislation

• The Hyperlaw and Matthew Bender Co v West Publishing Co case

  • November 3, 1998 decisions of the US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, in favor of Matthew Bender Co and Hyperlaw Inc.
    See the "citation appeal" (docket 97-7430) decision and dissent and the "text appeal" (docket 97-7910) decision and dissent.
  • Hyperlaw's web page on the case.
  • CPT's web page on Public Acces to Legal Information, that contains a lot of information about what is the background of the West Publishing case.

• Links related to H.R. 2652, S 2291
  • The HyperLaw's page on Database Protection Proposals, includes witnesses statements
  • The Association of Research Libraries' page on Copyright and Intellectual Property, includes several documents on the new database legislation
  • The Digital Future Coalition's page on database, includes links to statements at the Hearings and more.

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• Intellectual Property and Sports Statistics, CPT's page on Intellectual Property and Sports Statistics.

Papers and Articles on Database IP Rights

• April 2001. Douglas M. Isenberg. The Great Database Debate. Gigalaw.com.
• June 1997. Jonathan Band and Jonathan S. Gowdy. Sui Generis Database Protection: Has Its Time Come? D-Lib Magazine.
• G. S. Srividhya. IPR Issues in Databases.