QatarCopyright Protection Law, database and excluded subject matter
Law No. 7 of 2002, arts. 3(3), 4
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
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What it requires
- A database or compilation is protected by copyright only if the selection or arrangement of its contents is creative; scraping data from a compilation that is not creatively selected or arranged does not infringe a copyright interest in the compilation itself, since Qatar has no sui generis database right.
- Bare facts, ideas, procedures, mathematical concepts, and daily news of a mere informatory nature are excluded from copyright protection, so reproducing them as such does not by itself infringe copyright, though a creative derivative expression of them is still protected.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 3(3) protects databases that are creative in the selection or arrangement of their contents, and article 4 excludes laws, official documents, daily news, ideas, procedures and mere data from protection. They state what is and is not protected and impose no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record. The Law's article 5 on which works it applies to is outside the cited articles.
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What this law does
Article 3(3), read against article 2's list of originally protected works, protects a database as a derived work only 'if creative in the arrangement of selection of their subject matter', the same originality-in-selection standard the article applies to encyclopedia collections and folklore compilations; Qatar confers no separate sui generis database right beyond this compilation standard.
Article 4 excludes laws, legal provisions, administrative decisions, international treaties, and official documents from protection (though a creative compilation of such material is still protected), along with daily news and other news of a mere informatory nature, and ideas, procedures, operational methods, mathematical concepts, principles, and mere data, while any derivative expression of the latter category remains protectable.
A scraper copying data from a non-creatively-arranged database, or copying facts, ideas, or bare daily news, does not infringe a copyright interest in that material under this Law.
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