While the reporter breached his fiduciary duty, the court noted that The Journal had a proprietary interest in the information its reporters gathered, and could do with it as it saw fit.
The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, with relatively proprietary content, can afford hard pay walls on the Web.
Some specialist titles, such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, have been developing proprietary information and business tools.
Boeing is disciplining six employees after the aerospace and defense company determined they were involved in acquiring proprietary Lockheed Martin documents, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Such infrastructures for handling data (SI) have been largely neglected in the traditional publishing models used in traditional journals, or instead incorporated into proprietary systems where the data ceases to be properly open.
What this means for the long-term scientific health of our nation remains to be seen; perhaps Facebook and Google will prosper, but some of the best new technologies may remain proprietary, rather than be published openly in academic journals.
Last fall, when investors valued the company at $9bn, the Wall Street Journal disclosed that, according to insiders, Theranos was using its proprietary "pinprick" technology – the company's key selling point and the reason for that unicorn valuation – for only a fraction of the tests it conducted.
The editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association explained that the information requested was proprietary and would not be released to anyone.
Their ranking strategies are very different from one another, ranging from traditional IR techniques like explicit/implicit feedback (RefMed/MiSearch) and relevance ranking (Twease), to utilizing domain specific importance factors like journal impact factors and citation numbers (PubFocus), to some unknown proprietary semantic NLP technologies (Hikia and SemanticSearch).
Although necessary proofs of principle, the problems will not be solved by linking a single database to a single article, by linking a single database to several articles, or by linking several databases to a single issue of a single journal; nor will they be solved by developing and protecting proprietary mark-up tools and ontologies.
