Rights in and to data are emerging as a key theme for the 2010’s across a range of industry sectors. In financial services, market data is a $20bn business; in healthcare, data aggregation from past procedures dramatically assists outcome prediction; and in the online world, metadata – data about data – increasingly unlocks monetisation. As the perceived value of data increases, what are the rights in data that the law will recognise? What are the courts’ and regulators’ attitudes to data? And how are market practices evolving to exploit and safeguard access? In this session, Richard Kemp and Paul Hinton answered these questions and illustrated pitfalls
