ECJ backs database owners
13 October 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
The European Court of Justice has ruled that database owners can prevent material from being transferred from their database even if there is no technical process of copying
In a ruling on October 9, in a dispute referred from Germany, the Court said that if someone consults an online database, assesses its contents, and then transfers the data to another database, that action "is capable of constituting an 'extraction'".
However, the transfer must amount to either a substantial part of the database, or to...
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