Saint Kitts and NevisCopyright Act, 2024, protection of compilations of data
Copyright Act, 2024 (No. 14 of 2024), s. 4(3) (compilations of data)
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A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- A compilation of data is protected by copyright only if its selection or arrangement is the author's own intellectual creation; the protection does not extend to the underlying data or other material within it.
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What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 4(3) makes a compilation of data or other material eligible for copyright as a literary work where its selection or arrangement is the author's own intellectual creation, and excludes the underlying data from that protection. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and the subsection has no territorial clause of its own.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 4(3) makes a compilation of data or other material, in machine-readable or other form, eligible for copyright protection as a literary work only if, by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents, the compilation constitutes the author's own intellectual creation, and expressly provides that this protection does not extend to any data or other material forming part of the compilation.
The Act creates no separate sui generis database right of the kind some jurisdictions grant to a database's maker regardless of originality, so a non-original compilation, or the underlying data within an original one, is not protected on this ground. The Act was assented to on and published in Official Gazette No. 36 of 2024 on , repealing the prior Copyright Act, Cap. 18.08, but no commencement notice for the Act has been located in the Official Gazette.
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