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Sui generis database rights and what constitutes a substantial part

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 3 2011

In Beechwood House Publishing v Guardian Products Ltd 2011 EWPCC 22, the Claimant’s database right was found to have been infringed when the Defendants extracted 6,000 records from the Claimant’s database of 43,000 records

Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo! UK Ltd: database right and database copyright

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2011

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has confirmed that sui generis database right does not subsist in football fixture lists

Bezpečnostni softwarová asociace-Svaz softwarové ochrany v Ministerstvo kultury: copyright in a graphic user interface

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Czech Republic, European Union
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  • February 28 2011

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the graphic user interface (GUI) of a computer program is not protectable under the Software Directive (91250EC) but may be a copyright work in itself