MaltaCopyright Act Article 25, Sui Generis Right in Respect of Databases
Copyright Act (Cap. 415), Art. 25
In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of .
What it requires
- Extracting or re-utilizing the whole or a substantial part of a database's contents without the maker's consent risks infringing the sui generis database right, independent of any copyright in the database's contents (Art. 25).
What this law does
Article 25 of the Copyright Act grants the maker of a database who has made a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial investment in obtaining, verifying, or presenting its contents the right to authorise or prohibit extraction or re-utilization of the whole or a substantial part of its contents, irrespective of whether the database or its contents are eligible for copyright protection.
Article 27 sets the term of this sui generis right at fifteen years from the database's completion or, if later, from when it was first made available to the public.
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