It was interesting to read this report in Out-law that a quarter of Government’s databases are probably illegal. This follows a report by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (JRRT) into UK’s public databases. If so many public databases are non compliant my guess is that double that number are non compliant in the private sector. [...]
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ECJ Revives Database Right
A database right was first introduced in Europe in 1996 though the Database Directive. Under the Directive the maker of a database has the right to prevent the “extraction and/or re-utilisation of the whole or of a substantial part” of a database. Until recently the database right was considered to be less valuable and useful [...]
