Electronic information resources in Arab intellectual property rights legislation and laws: an exploratory study
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https://doi.org/10.70000/cj.2022.65.554Keywords:
Electronic resources, law and legislation, Arab countriesAbstract
This research paper aims to explore the extent to which intellectual property laws in Arab countries include provisions related to electronic and Internet-published information sources. The study seeks to identify the availability of intellectual property protection laws and whether these laws have been updated to cover new forms of electronic information sources.
The study's findings reveal that there are intellectual property laws in 17 Arab countries. All these laws include provisions on computer programs, but only five laws address databases as an electronic information source. Moreover, all the intellectual property laws in Arab countries have overlooked provisions regarding electronic information sources published on the Internet.
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