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Who Controls Your Farm Data? NALC Webinar Examines Emerging State Laws

By Phillip Powell

As agricultural technology continues to generate increasing amounts of data, questions surround who owns that information, who can use it and who may benefit financially from it are increasingly important. A webinar hosted by the National Agricultural Law Center will help to answer some of those questions. 

The webinar, titled “Agricultural Data Rights: A New State Law Landscape,” will examine how new state laws are addressing agricultural data ownership and monetization rights among various participants in the agricultural technology creation and usage chain.

The one-hour, online event will begin at 11 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 21. It is free and open to the public.

Registration is available online through the National Agricultural Law Center at https://snip.ly/2pd5qx.

Presenters will include D. Reed Freeman, chair of the Privacy Practice Group at ArentFox Schiff, and Karen Ellis Carr, chair of the firm’s Agriculture & AgTech Industry Group.

Freeman and Carr will discuss the evolving state law landscape and how legal rights related to agricultural data are being allocated among producers, landowners, lessees, original equipment manufacturers, seed companies, aggregators and technology providers.

Source : uada.edu

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