Notes

What do we mean, when we talk about data?

• Facts: whatever happens and exists, that is, events, things ... or human behaviors.
• Fa­cts' records: Tracks, whatever results from the fact that someone or something is observing those facts.

What do we mean, when we talk about information? Information is data in context, data with meaning.

What are the technologies to which we refer while we talk about data and information? The many and varied technologies that record, collect, store, process, and elaborate data and information, not by chance, we call them information technologies.

Some of these technologies are also digital when they record data via the binary code and/or collect, store, process, or elaborate digital data, that are records encoded via the binary code.

What is the relationship among data, information and information technologies? From the antitrust perspective... Consider that antitrust scholars turn everything into a process in which they can distinguish an input, an output, and the means whereby inputs turn into outputs. Thus, when it comes to antitrust law, broadly speaking we believe that:

• Technologies to generate, collect, store, and organize data.
• Data as inputs
• Technologies to elaborate data and infer...
• Information as a first output that... can be sold or used as input for further processes.

What is the relationship among data, information, and information technologies? From the IP law perspective...Consider that the IP world is divided into:

• What is protected and what is not, certain information, technologies and data.
• What is allows and what is not, certain uses free-ride, others are necessary to generate further data, technologies and information.

Therefore:

• IP law and competition law have different categories and purposes.
• Data information and technologies may have different meaning depending on the context.