Ley sobre Derechos de Autor y Derechos Conexos, artículo 8, protección de bases de datos

Ley No. 6683, art. 8, reformado por Ley No. 7397 de 3 de mayo de 1994

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In force since 4 November 1982.

A database right rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 5 September 2026.

What it requires

Do not reproduce the original selection or arrangement of a Costa Rican database compilation without the rightsholder's authorization; Costa Rican law protects a database only as a compilation, so it does not by itself bar extracting the underlying data.

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What it reaches

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What this law does

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Article 8, as amended by Ley No. 7397 of 3 May 1994, states that databases are protected as compilations.

Costa Rican law therefore gives a database no sui generis right of the kind the EU Database Directive creates for the producer's investment; protection instead follows the ordinary compilation-copyright standard, so only a database whose selection or arrangement is itself an original intellectual creation is protected, and only against reproduction of that original selection or arrangement, not against extraction of the underlying data as such. No text-and-data-mining exception exists in Costa Rican copyright law.

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Consolidated text of Ley No. 6683 sobre el Derecho de Autor y Derechos Conexos
as reformed by Laws No. 7397 (1994) and No. 7979 (2000), WIPO Lex

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