MadagascarLaw No. 94-036, protection of databases as compilations
Loi n° 94-036, art. 6 et 7 (protection des banques de données)
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Reproducing the selection or arrangement of a protected Malagasy database compilation without the compiler's authorization may infringe this right, independently of whether the underlying data or works are themselves protected.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 6 protects authors of translations, adaptations, anthologies and databases, and article 7 defines a database as a compilation of data, information, extracts or whole works and protects only the selection and arrangement (in French: "databases are compilations of data or other information"). Neither imposes a duty to keep a log or record, and neither carries a territorial clause, so the hook is left empty.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 6 extends copyright protection to authors of anthologies or compilations of diverse works or expressions of folklore, and to databases under the terms of article 7, without prejudice to the rights of the authors of the original works included.
Article 7 defines a database as a compilation of data or other information, or of extracts of works, or of entire works, in electronic or other form, and confines protection to the selection and arrangement of the materials rather than to the underlying data or works themselves; where the compilation is of works, the compilation and the constituent works are protected independently, and where it is a compilation of information, only the compilation itself is protected.
This is a copyright-style protection of the compiler's selection and arrangement of materials, not a right created independently of any originality in that selection or arrangement.
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