Something Completely Different: Europe’s Sui Generis Database Right

Abstract

This chapter traces the sui generis database right’s historic roots, describes its main features, compares it to copyright, questions its legal nature especially in the light of international intellectual property agreements, and finally examines to what extent the goals of the Directive have been met.

Database right, frontpage, Intellectual property, Kluwer Information Law Series

Bibtex

Chapter{Hugenholtz2016b, title = {Something Completely Different: Europe’s Sui Generis Database Right}, author = {Hugenholtz, P.}, url = {http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/download/Chapter9_ILS37.pdf }, year = {0915}, date = {2016-09-15}, abstract = {This chapter traces the sui generis database right’s historic roots, describes its main features, compares it to copyright, questions its legal nature especially in the light of international intellectual property agreements, and finally examines to what extent the goals of the Directive have been met.}, keywords = {Database right, frontpage, Intellectual property, Kluwer Information Law Series}, }