USA Law

Tag: Databases

  • Cost of West and Lexis Databases

    Cost of West and Lexis Databases in the United States The costs of database subscriptions can be quite expensive (Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 797, 830 (2006)). In large […]

  • Legal Protection of Databases

    Legal Protection of Databases in the United States Copyright Protection of Databases Ordinary compilations of data may not possess the requisite level of creativity to be copyrightable at any level of abstraction. According to the jurisprudence, the degree of copyright protection for […]