JamaicaCopyright Act, 1993 (as amended by Act 29 of 1999), compilations
Copyright Act, 1993 (Act 5 of 1993, as amended by Act 29 of 1999), s. 6(3A)
In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- TDM
What it requires
- Copying a compilation's selection and arrangement can infringe the compilation's own copyright, but extracting the underlying works, data, or other material it comprises does not, because no sui generis database right protects that material separately.
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What this law does
Section 6(3A), inserted into section 6 of the 1993 Act by section 3 of the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1999 (Act 29 of 1999), provides that copyright subsisting in a literary work that is a compilation does not extend to the works, data, or other material the compilation comprises, and does not affect any copyright that may separately exist in that underlying material.
The inserting Act's own commencement clause left its coming into operation to a day appointed by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette, and no such notice has been located. Jamaica accordingly protects a compilation's selection and arrangement as a literary work but confers no sui generis database right of the kind the EU recognises; the word "database" does not appear anywhere in the Act.
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