Database rights: Ryanair finds benefit in third class Posted on Jan 20, 2015 by Andy Harris | Tags: database copyright sui generis right scraping | 0 Comments By Andy HarrisNormally companies are keen to take advantage of as many of the available intellectual property protections as possible. Last week however saw a CJEU decision where Ryanair benefitted from not qualifying for either of the usual forms of database protection.First and second class Rights in databases are normally protected by either copyright or by a ‘sui generis’ right introduced specifically for databases in 1997.Copyright will protect a database where it constitutes the...
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