Discuss the legal protection given to databases under the Maltese Copyright Act 2000.
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Discuss the legal protection given to databases under the Maltese Copyright Act 2000. A computer database is a collection of information stored on computer media. The range of things, which may be included in a database, is vast and enormous; "the information in a database may be a list of clients and their addresses or a full text of various documents or a set of co-ordinates relating to three-dimensional building structure. The information contained in the database may, itself, be confidential and protected by the law of breach of confidence. When one looks at a computer database and considers the work it represents, for example, a printed; list of names and addresses, a printed set of documents or a drawing of a building. Those works are protected by copyright as literary or artistic works and it does not matter if the work is never produced on paper and only ever...


