Digital Sequence Information between Benefit-Sharing and Open Data
- Currently, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are negotiating a strategic plan to save biodiversity. One crucial element of an agreement is the question of whether and how digital sequence information (DSI) is subject to access and benefit-sharing from the utilization of genetic resources, one main instrument of the CBD. In the EU, the Open Data Directive (ODD) of 2019 and the recently adopted Data Governance Act (DGA) already cover research data and to some extent DSI. An analysis of the ODD and the DGA throws a spot-light on the legal uncertainty of utilizing DSI and reveals systemic tensions between open data principles and benefit-sharing restrictions on non-commercial use. It also suggests that a future benefit-sharing mechanism for DSI should avoid distinguishing between commercial and non-commercial use upstream, but should instead favor a solution, which imposes benefit-sharing obligations further downstream or outside of the DSI life cycle.
| Author: | Heiko Richter, Irma Klünker |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsac035 |
| ISSN: | 2053-9711 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Law and the Biosciences: JLB |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Place of publication: | Oxford |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften |
| Release Date: | 2026/05/21 |
| Online-Document?: | ja |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Article Number: | lsac035 |
| Documents ordered by chairs: | Lehrstuhl für Privatrecht und Regulierung der digitalen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Richter) |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
