On Legislative Perfection Of Legal Protection For Database In Our Country

The new technological revolution, which started in the middle of the 20th century, not only promote the comprehensive development of science and technology and progress of the social, but also make a qualitative leap in human society to enter into the so-called information society and knowledge-based era. The fundamental characteristic of the era is the explosion of the information. Following the material and energy, information becomes the main wealth chased by people. As the monetized, digitalization and networking of the information, the information services that specialized in collection, collation, storage and dissemination of the information also comes into being, and the most representative one is the database industry. In recent years, with the further development of the digital technology, the capacity of the database has a rapid increase. Especially with the electronic of the storage media and the computerized of the searching tools for information, it is a great help for ability of the database to deal with the information. It can be said that, in today's society which emphasizes efficient, producing a sophisticated database will save a lot of human ability, material, financial and time costs of searching and processing information for the people who demand it. However, while the electronic of database upgrades the processing capacity and the utilization of the information, there are some shortcomings of the database, such as simple, cheap and fast for reproducing and same quality between the replicas and the original, which meant that the database is more vulnerable to be abused. Especially in the environment of network without borders, the electronic database faces a greater risk of the illegal reproducing and using and the consequences of infringement are more serious than the traditional paper-based database. So it is necessary to give more legal protection for...