[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Tue Nov 23 14:57:54 GMT 2010


Grant Slater <openstreetmap at ...> writes:

>>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").

>>Does this mean, then, that every country which has a database right also has
>>database copyright?

>No copyright and database-right are not universal the world over,

Yes - it's my understanding that the sui generis database right exists only in
Europe - is that so?

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> 




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