The Protection of IoT Data by the Intellectual Property Laws and the Bound of the Protection

Abstract

The enterprise's interest to the legal protection of IoT Data that will bring a profitable value is higher. On the other hand the current Intellectual Property Laws are designed to protect invented products and works the Author creates and are not designed to protect “data” without conditions. The contract based on Civil Code makes it possible to limit the licensee's use of “data”. However the best drafting to license “data” is not clear so far. This paper analyzes the coverage of the protection by the current Intellectual Property Laws and its bound. An idea of law to protect “data” as “information assets” based on the analysis is given.