Information held in electronic databases not property which can be possessed, rules UK court The judges said that whilst it is possible to exert control over electronic information it is not possible to gain possession of it. The distinction was drawn in a case concerning a dispute between a publisher and an IT supplier <http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2014/281.html>. Magazine publisher Datateam Business Media Limited (DBM) agreed a contract with Your Response Limited (YR) to outsource the management of its database of subscribers. YR was given access to the database so as to perform its management duties. http://bit.ly/1rePVLA Source: http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/march/information-held-in-electronic-databases-not-property-which-can-be-possessed-rules-uk-court/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1rePVLA+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]