Data Access Rules

Duration: November 2022 until April 2024

The highly controversial question of the allocation of data (rights) has consequences for access options and thus influences our possibilities to use data most effectively and in a way that is compatible with the common good. Therefore, the project group scrutinises traditional allocation and access guidelines. On the one hand, it examines specific possibilities as to how data access can be designed in such a way that it reflects multi-actor responsibility and neither overburdens nor overestimates individual data providers. On the other hand, against the backdrop of systematic-philosophical conceptions of “rights”, it is to be asked to what extent data accesses form a meaningful field of application in order to modify traditional ideas of the subject and ideas of rights based on them.

Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. Steffen Augsberg, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | spokesperson | more information
Dr. Marcus Düwell, Technische Universität Darmstadt | more information

Prof. Dr. Petra Gehring, Technische Universität Darmstadt | more information
Prof. Dr. Malte-C. Gruber, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | more information
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, LL.M., Universität Kassel | more information
Prof. Dr. Doris Schweitzer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main | more information

Data Access Rules
Between Release and Control

Anthology  | 9 October 2024

The continuous expansion of new information and communication technologies is increasing society’s ‘hunger for data’ – suffice to think of training data for AI applications.

The question of who authorises access to data and which rules need to be followed in this respect is therefore of essential social importance.

Are data a legally protected good at all, and if so, whose?

What are the consequences of this for access regulations?

Traditionally, data access rules are mostly based on individual control competences, and only in some areas on overriding interests. In view of the threat of excessive demands and the resulting shortage of data, the contributions in this volume examine from various perspectives whether such a strongly subject-based regulatory model is theoretically convincing and what practical alternative solutions are conceivable.

Previous Events

Datenzugangsregeln zwischen Freigabe und Kontrolle

Interdisciplinary Conference, 19 April 2024 | more on this event

Zeitenwende beim Datenzugang? Struktur, Inhalte und Abstimmungsbedarf der aktuellen Regelungsvorschläge

Interdisciplinary Conference, 13 October 2023 | more on this event

Zugänge zu den Zugängen: Perspektiven und Gestaltungsoptionen

Interdisciplinary Workshop, 4 May 2023 | more on this event

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