Something Completely Different: Europe’s Sui Generis Database Right

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2016
Host editors
  • S. Frankel
  • D. Gervais
Book title The Internet and the Emerging Importance of New Forms of Intellectual Property
ISBN
  • 9789041167897
Series Information Law Series
Pages (from-to) 205-222
Publisher Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Abstract This chapter traces the sui generis database right’s historic roots, describes its main features, compares it to copyright, questions its legal nature especially in the light of international intellectual property agreements, and finally examines to what extent the goals of the Directive have been met.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/Chapter9_ILS37.pdf
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