Singapore protects databases under copyright law. While copyright may be conceptually malleable enough to protect databases, stretching copyright over these factual compilations may be a rough and incomplete solution to regulating access. The EU Database Directive makes a clearer...

This paper argues that antitrust law supplements endogenous means with intellectual property law in maintaining the 'access-incentive' balance in databases. It starts from the premise that a trend toward 'TRIPs-plus' rights in databases, whatever its form, is inevitable. The reason is a simple,...