...protection as their own, unique form of intellectual property. Under the EU directive, a database is "a collection of independent works, data or other...individually accessible by electronic or other means." A database may be protected either because it represents a work of "intellectual creation" or because...

...investment, whether of financial, human or technical resources, and 'database' is widely defined to mean any 'collection of independent works, data or other materials...individually accessible by electronic or other means'. The right is owned by the 'maker' of the database, who is defined as the person whose initiative is...

...the "database right" by the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (SI 1997 No. 3032). A "database" is defined as a "collection of independent works, data or other materials which are arranged in a systematic or methodical way and are individually accessible by electronic...

...Database Directive protects databases in whatever form. For the purposes of the Database Directive, a database is defined as "a collection of independent...individually accessible by electronic or other means". 80 It is clear then that not just computerised databases fall within the scope of the Database Directive....

...Directive. 2220. A database is defined in the Database Directive, the Copyright Law and the Database Law as "a collection of independent works, data or other...individually accessible by electronic or other means" '. 2221. The Database Directive provides for 2 different forms of legal protection of databases. The...

...on the Legal Protection of Databases. The directive protects any form of database, which it defines as "a collection of independent works, data or other...individually accessible by electronic or other means." The form of the selection or arrangement is protected by copyright. The content — the data in the...

...Databases?0 This directive provides for the legal protection of databases in any form, ie collections of independent works, data or other materials arranged...individually accessible by electronic or other means. - Council Directive 87/54/EC on the Legal Protection of Topographies of Semiconductor Products?1 The...

...database's contents without the owner's consent will infringe this right. 8.11.1 The SMI generis right 'Database' is defined as: ... a collection of independent...individually accessible by electronic or other means. The right runs for 15 years from 1 January of the year following the date of completion of its making,...

...investments in the development of a database. Article 1(2) of the EC Database Directive defines a database as "a collection of independent works, data or other...individually accessible by electronic or other means." This definition includes "hard copy" or paper databases, but specifically excludes computer programs...

...suggests some directions for a more tailored approach.84 The EU Directive currently defines a database as 'a collection of independent works, data or other...and individually accessible by electronic or other means.'85 This definition tracks the wording of a proposed World Intellectual Property Organization...