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The rights to a database | Who owns the copyright in data?

Databases and the data in them have become very valuable assets. People often ask, what is the law relating to data ownership? What is a database? How do you define a database in an agreement? How does the law [...]

By |2019-09-04T10:07:35+02:00July 30th, 2012|Categories: Information Law, Intellectual Property Protection|Tags: , , , |
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Copying from online databases without consent

If a website provider includes databases on its site, can it stop other people from using or reproducing data from those databases? Yes. A database is protected as a literary work under the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 whilst computer [...]

By |2022-10-25T14:06:52+02:00October 21st, 2008|Categories: Intellectual Property Protection|Tags: , , , , , |
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