Legal protection of the authors of databases in the Community and Spanish law.

Authors

  • Antonio Pajuelo Macías Doctor en Derecho y del Cuerpo Facultativo de Archiveros y Bibliotecarios

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.1999.v22.i4.344

Keywords:

authors, databases, copyright, community law, Spanish law, legal protection, electronic and non electronic databases

Abstract


This article analyzes the copyright protection of databases; the extension of this protection to electronic and non electronic databases; the authors originality in the selection or the arrangement of the contents of the database as the exclusive criterion or condition "sine qua non", of the copyright protection; the distinction between the copyright of the contents of the databases (literary works, statistics ... ) and the copyright of the selection or arrangement of the contents of the databases and, finally, the exceptions to this copyright.

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Published

1999-12-30

How to Cite

Pajuelo Macías, A. (1999). Legal protection of the authors of databases in the Community and Spanish law. Revista Española De Documentación Científica, 22(4), 456–471. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.1999.v22.i4.344

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