[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

[Ed Avis]

Francis Davey <fjmd1a at ...> 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.)

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>