AbstractEarth observation by satellites is one of the developing sectors of space activities with the growing involvement in private capital or actors. This leads to the question of how efficient legal rules governing this activity are. Copyright law is one of the key fields of law applicable to earth observation activities and is the subject of the present analysis. This paper describes the current state of copyright regulations in different jurisdictions.1The paper is largely based on my current doctoral research. Draft chapter on file with the author. It also addresses the issue of defining earth observation data for the purpose of applying copyright protection to them. Finally, it analyses whether more or less copyright protection would be beneficial for the commercialisation of the earth observation activities, and the distribution and further use of data they produce.


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    Title :

    A rightly balanced intellectual property rights regime as a mechanism to enhance commercial earth observation activities


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 67 , 5-6 ; 639-647


    Publication date :

    2010-04-26


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English