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§ TAG · DATA-PRODUCTS

Filed under data-products

Every brief tagged "data-products".

  • § 01 · SPC

    'Whoever Invests, Whoever Contributes, Whoever Benefits': The Supreme People's Court Explains Its First Data-Rights Guiding Cases

    Full translation of the Q&A given by the head of the Supreme People's Court's Research Office on the 47th batch of guiding cases (Guiding Cases Nos. 262–267), the Court's first thematic batch on judicial protection of data rights and interests, released 28 August 2025 under Fa [2025] No. 150. Six questions. On the batch's character: the cases span unfair competition, tort, personal-information protection and enforcement, and — the point the Court presses hardest — they are guiding cases, not 'typical cases', so courts at every level shall refer to them and may cite them in the reasoning of a judgment. On the Data Twenty Articles: No. 262 protects the data processor's operational interest on a 'whoever invests, whoever contributes, whoever benefits' principle; No. 263 protects the data source subject's ability to move its own data between platforms; No. 264 protects the right to process and use data by refusing tort liability for a lawfully compiled price index. On the Anti-Unfair Competition Law: data disputes cluster in unfair competition because copyright cannot reach the operational interest in an aggregate — but from 15 October 2025 courts must apply the revised AUCL's dedicated data clause, Article 13(3), to this conduct. On personal information: Nos. 265 and 266 are a deliberate positive-and-negative pair on PIPL Article 13(1)(2) 'contractual necessity' — a login screen with no alternative is not voluntary consent; a credit check for an 'enjoy now, pay later' fare service is contractually necessary and minimally invasive. On enforcement: No. 267 holds that delivering a platform account means changing the real-name verification too, and that the applicant may ask the court to order the platform to make the change. Plus the Court's stated next steps.

    spc · supreme-peoples-court · guiding-cases
  • § 02 · PUBLIC-DATA

    Inside the Gate: How Enterprises Can Compliantly Process, Operate, and Trade Public Data Under China's Authorized-Operation Model

    China's public-data authorized-operation regime (公共数据授权运营) is the primary route for enterprises to commercialise government-held data. A DEXC+ analysis by Yang Haoran maps the full compliance arc: what qualifies as public data, how it must be processed within a sandboxed platform, and what a data product needs to clear before it can be listed on an exchange. Drawing on the National Data Administration's draft Authorized-Operation Implementation Specifications and Shenzhen Data Exchange's own 3×4 dynamic-compliance framework — covering subject compliance, subject-matter compliance, and circulation compliance across legal, security, integrity, and rights dimensions — the brief gives overseas counsel a structured view of the obligations that attach at each stage of the public-data supply chain, from first authorisation to on-exchange listing.

    public-data · authorized-operation · data-trading
  • § 03 · DATA-ECONOMY

    What Is Actually Traded on China's Data Exchanges — A Bakery Metaphor

    Per the Shenzhen Provisional Measures for Data Trading Administration, four categories of object can be traded on a Chinese data exchange: data products, data services, data tools, and other regulator-approved objects. Wang Qinglan walks through what each means in plain language with a bakery metaphor — wheat (raw data) becomes flour (data resources) becomes cakes (data products); a baker is a data service; the oven is a data tool. The piece is useful precisely because it answers a question overseas teams rarely think to ask: what are the data exchanges actually selling?

    data-economy · data-trading · data-products
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