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1st May 2003 Discuss the legal protection given to databases under the Copyright Act 2000 Prologue On 11 March 1996, European Directive 96/9/EC concerning the legal protection of databases was passed. From that date on, Member States were required to protect databases both by copyright and by a new "sui generis" right that controls extraction and reutilization of the contents in a datatabase. In December 2001 a new act was approved by parliament and entered into force in March 2002, which implemented almost in mirror form in the new Copyright Act. The EU Database Directive was created to harmonize the intellectual property laws regarding databases of the 18 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) by supplementing copyright to protect databases produced by sweat of the brow. The Directive was passed in March 1996 and member nations were responsible for implementing it by January 1998. The Directive creates a new kind...

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