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§ TAG · DATA-HOLDING-RIGHT

Filed under data-holding-right

Every brief tagged "data-holding-right".

  • § 01 · DATA-PROPERTY-RIGHTS

    Two Paths for the 'Right to Hold Data' — and Why the Narrow One May Add Little

    Hong Yanqing (洪延青, 网安寻路人) works through the most unstable concept in China's 'separation of three rights' data-property framework — the Right to Hold Data (数据持有权). He pushes two readings to their logical ends. Path 1, the official 'complete separation' (三权完全切割): if the rights to hold, use, and operate data are truly independent, the holding right shrinks to a bare 'lawful-control state' whose only content is defensive — and that defense is already provided, against the world, by PIPL Article 10, DSL Article 32, the Network Data Security Regulation, and Article 13 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, so its incremental value as a standalone property right is thin. Path 2, the 'mother-right' reconstruction (持有权母权化): redefine 'holding' from factual control to a normative control that contains utilization potential, so the rights to use and operate are carved out from within it. DCC's read for overseas counsel: in Chinese data deals the tradeable substance sits in the rights to use and operate plus contract, registration, and compliance — not in 'who holds the data' — and China's data-property theory is still genuinely unsettled.

    data-property-rights · data-holding-right · data-economy
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