Costa RicaLey 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
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Obligation class
- Licensing
- Audit expectation
- none
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.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
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What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 8 protects databases as compilations. It imposes no duty on anyone to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and carries no territorial clause of its own, so the hook is empty. The Act's registry provisions concern the Registro Nacional de Derecho de Autor, not a record a user keeps.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 8, as amended by Ley No. 7397 of , states that databases are protected as compilations. Article 1, as reformed by Ley No. 8686 of , protects a compilation of data or other materials only where, by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents, it is an intellectual creation. That protection does not cover the data or materials themselves.
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 intellectual creation is protected, and only against reproduction of that selection or arrangement, not against extraction of the underlying data as such. No text-and-data-mining exception exists in Costa Rican copyright law.
When LexLint raises it
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