Francis Davey <fjm...@...> writes:
>>If I remember correctly, UK have recently excluded databases from copyright
>>protection since 1997
>Not quite. A database may attract either database right, copyright or
>both. The change to database copyright (as opposed to database right)
>is that copyright in a database has a harmonised subsistence threshold
>across Europe ("own intellectual creation").
Thanks for clarifying this.
Does this mean, then, that every country which has a database right also has
database copyright? (Perhaps there are some countries outside Europe which
hold databases to be protectable via sui generis right but not via copyright.)
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Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>
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