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Database transactions and management—overview

Protection for databases


A database can be safeguarded in various ways:

  • Copyright may protect literary and artistic material, such as tables and compilations included within a database, where those works are original; however, for databases, literary copyright in tables and compilations was removed by section 3(1)(a) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988).
  • The database’s structure can be protected by copyright under CDPA 1988, sections 3–3A, which implemented Article 3 of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (the EU Database Directive), if it qualifies as an original literary work. Originality requires effort in choosing and arranging data, with sufficient judgement and skill so the result is the author’s own intellectual creation.
  • The distinct (sui generis) database right under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (CRD 1997), SI 1997/3032, which implemented Article 7 of the EU Database Directive, can protect the database’s contents where there has been substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting them.

See Practice Notes: Legal protection of...

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