Database right

Estelle Derclaye (The University of Nottingham)

Football Dataco: skill and labour is dead!

March 1, 2012

Summary & comment by Dr. Estelle Derclaye, Associate Professor and Reader in Intellectual Property law, University of Nottingham, School of Law. “The crux of the judgment comes at paragraph 42 when…

Tatiana Synodinou (University of Cyprus)

Databases: sui generis protection and copyright protection

December 20, 2011

Data creation, intellectual creation and creativity in the world of databases: The Advocate’s General Opinion in the Football Dataco Ltd v. Yahoo! Uk Limited Case and its potential impact in…

Maurizio Borghi

A list of permanent memory absolute addresses

December 14, 2011

UK: High Court Chancery Division, 09-11-2011: Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd v. Chief Constable of West Copyright does not subsist in a list of permanent memory absolute ("PM Abs")…

Guido Westkamp (Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London)

Database rights and the place of re-utilisation

April 18, 2011

By Gaetano Dimita The football data clashes continue. This time, the Court of Appeals decided to bring an important aspect of the Dataco case (as mentioned here) to the attention of the Court of…

Guido Westkamp (Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London)

Originality and Databases

March 3, 2011

Football listings have hit the UK again, this time with an “original” twist.Disputes surrounding football lists never seem to go out of fashion. On 9 December 2010, the High Court yet again was faced…