Mason, after a long time study, puts forward 4 major ethical topics for discussion in the information age: information privacy, information accuracy, information property right and information resources access right.

Through analysis on the features of information product, this paper expounds the meaning, characteristics and social significance of information property right, and points out the necessity of information property right protection.

It is a trend to adopt information property theory to database legal protection.

As early as in the 80 s of the last century,Chinese scholars had raised the systematic theory on information property and persisted that all subject-matters protected by intellectual property are information.

In order to help our industrial circles to better understand and implement "developing industrialization based on information" and to promote the legislative institutions to work better for the superstructure to meet the requirements of the economic base, we should know better the relationship between information, information property and intellectual property and lay a solid theoret.