OmanLaw on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, database compilations and absence of a sui generis right
Royal Decree No. 65/2008, Arts. 2(b), 3(c), 4
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not assume a merely comprehensive, non-creatively-arranged Omani database is protected; only a compilation of data that is creative as to the selection or arrangement of its contents is a protected work, and only that selection or arrangement, not the underlying data itself, is protected.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Articles 2(b), 3(c) and 4 protect databases and compilations of data that are intellectual creations by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents, and exclude mere data. They set no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record, and Oman has no separate right for a database whose contents are not an original selection. The cited articles carry no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 2(b) lists computer programs and databases, whether machine-readable or otherwise, among the categories of protected works. Article 3(c) narrows that to compilations of data or other material, whether in machine-readable or other form, which by reason of the selection and arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations, without prejudice to any copyright subsisting in the underlying content.
No separate sui generis or producer's database right, of the kind the European Union's Database Directive creates, was located in the sections read; a merely comprehensive, non-creatively-arranged database compiled by a scraper's target falls outside this protection, and Article 4's exclusion of mere data from copyright protection means the underlying facts a scraper extracts are not themselves protected even where the compiler's selection or arrangement is.
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