The Internet is awash with data, all of it with varying degrees of copyright protection. Internet-related data is commonly referred to as Big Data. Big Data is a form of content and, hence, Big Data rights are primarily copyright rights. Thus, in addition to the Copyright Act, Big Data is best protected by such Internet-related statutes as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860 (1998)).
Big Data is intimately coupled with the Internet, as suggested by the fact that from an etymological perspective it did not spring into existence until after the Internet was well established. Immense amounts of records were collected by computer business systems, such as the phone company and by governmental agencies such as the Census Bureau prior to the Internet, but that content was generally isolated and mass dissemination was difficult.
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