PhilippinesIntellectual Property Code, Compilation of Data and the News-of-the-Day Exclusion
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Sections 172-173, 175
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Scraping or reproducing a database or compilation of facts is outside this Code's protection unless the selection, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is itself original; mere data and news of the day carry no protection regardless of arrangement.
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What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 172, 173 and 175 protect literary and artistic works and original compilations of data, and exclude mere data, news of the day and official texts. None creates a duty to create, keep or produce a log or record, and the Code has no separate right for a database that is not an original selection. The cited sections carry no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 173.1(b) protects "compilations of data and other materials which are original by reason of the selection or coordination or arrangement of their contents" as a derivative work: an unoriginal compilation, one that merely reproduces facts without a protectable selection or arrangement, earns no copyright under this section.
Section 175 excludes "mere data as such" and "news of the day and other miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information" from protection outright, regardless of Sections 172 and 173. Section 216.1 makes any person infringing a right protected under the Code liable to an injunction and to damages.
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