Accurately defining data ownership is an important premise for data circulation and sharing, this paper analyzes the existing legislation and judicial status by combing the theoretical views of data ownership with typical cases, to further clarify the current problems of data ownership in practice, which is mainly due to the complexity of the data elements and the difficulty of defining uniform standards. According to the top-level design of the "three rights" of the data twenty articles, data can be divided into personal data, enterprise data and public data according to different subjects, in different stages of the flow of the corresponding subject to the data resources to hold the right, data processing right to use, the right to operate data products, in the three rights on the basis of the construction of the right to build a hierarchical classification, with a view to realizing the flow and utilization of data, and guarantee the data ownership problems. The flow and utilization of data, to ensure the security and value realization of data.

Xinlu Wang. Research on the Definition and Construction of Data Ownership. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 4: 7-14. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.060402.

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