Five perspectives on protecting fixture lists
01 June 2010
Last month a UK court ruled that football fixture lists can be protected under copyright law. In response, lawyers in five jurisdictions consider the role that copyright and sui generis database rights play in protecting such information
Australia
1. Sui generis rights
There is no sui generis protection of databases in Australia. However, there is likely to be more attention paid to the issue following two important copyright cases....
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