Category: database right

Football Dataco Ltd v Smoot Enterprises Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted April 18th, 2011 in appeals, database right, default judgments, law reports by sally

Football Dataco Ltd v Smoot Enterprises Ltd [2011] EWHC 973 (Ch); [2011] WLR (D) 136

“The court’s power to grant judgment in default under CPR Pt 12 could be exercised notwithstanding the fact that part of the relief sought by the claimant turned on a question of European law which was the subject both of an unresolved appeal to the Court of Appeal and of a reference by that court to the Court of Justice of the European Union.”

WLR Daily, 14th April 2011

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Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another – WLR Daily

Posted April 1st, 2011 in copyright, database right, EC law, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another [2011] EWCA Civ 330; [2011] WLR (D) 113

“There was no good arguable case of copyright infringement under article 3 of Directive 96/9/EC such as to establish that the English court had jurisdiction for the purposes of article 27 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 where, even though the collection of data might involve some intellectual creation, what was alleged to have been copied was mere data on any reasonable view.”

WLR Daily, 29th March 2011

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Content is ‘made available’ in jurisdiction where server is located, rules High Court – OUT-LAW.com

Posted November 19th, 2010 in copyright, database right, EC law, jurisdiction, news by sally

“A company is responsible for ‘making available’ internet-hosted material in the country where its host server is based, not in the country where the material is read or used, the High Court has said.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2010

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Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another – WLR Daily

Posted November 19th, 2010 in copyright, database right, EC law, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another [2010] EWHC 2911 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 293

“The act of making available to the public all or a substantial part of the contents of a database by online transmission within the meaning of art 7(2)(b) of Parliament and Council Directive 96/9/EC on the Legal Protection of Databases was committed and committed only where the transmission took place.”

WLR Daily, 18th November 2010

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Appeal will challenge copyright protection in football fixture lists – OUT-LAW.com

Posted October 22nd, 2010 in copyright, database right, news, sport by sally

“OPINION: Everyone thought the question of what rights exist in football fixture lists was settled back in 2004 when the European Court of Justice concluded that the then new database right did not protect football fixture lists. It wasn’t.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2010

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Government publishes open data licence – OUT-LAW.com

Posted October 7th, 2010 in copyright, database right, government departments, news by sally

“The Government has published the details of a licence which allows the re-use of public and Government information on a perpetual, royalty-free basis regardless of any copyright or database rights that exist in the material.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 7th October 2010

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Guardian says dating site rivals violated database rights – OUT-LAW.com

Posted June 3rd, 2010 in database right, internet, media, news by sally

“The Guardian newspaper has sued two online dating sites in the High Court claiming that the companies have violated its database rights by using profiles taken from its own dating service.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 2nd June 2010

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Football fixtures protected by copyright but not database right, says High Court – OUT-LAW.com

Posted May 1st, 2010 in copyright, database right, news, sport by sally

“Football fixture lists are protected by database copyright but not by the EU’s database right, the High Court has said. The ruling means that sporting bodies can charge users of their fixture lists licence fees.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 30th April 2010

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Football Dataco Ltd and others v Brittens Pools Ltd; Same v Yahoo! UK Ltd; Same v Stan James (Abingdon ) Ltd and others – WLR Daily

Posted April 27th, 2010 in copyright, database right, EC law, law reports, sport by sally

Football Dataco Ltd and others v Brittens Pools Ltd; Same v Yahoo! UK Ltd; Same v Stan James (Abingdon ) Ltd and others [2010] EWHC 841 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 104

“The selection or arrangement required by art 3(1) of the European Parliament and Council Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases was not confined to selection or arrangement performed after the data in a database was finally created.”

WLR Daily, 26th April 2010

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Former employee who emailed company info to himself breached database rights, High Court rules – OUT-LAW.com

Posted September 9th, 2009 in confidentiality, database right, electronic mail, news by sally

“The founder of a conferencing business breached his former employer’s database rights and misappropriated its confidential information, the High Court has said.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 8th September 2009

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Database infringements depend on taking, not usage, of data – OUT-LAW.com

Posted March 12th, 2009 in database right, EC law, news by sally

“The European Union’s Database Directive is infringed when data is taken out of someone else’s database regardless of what they intend using the information for, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 11th March 2009

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IT contractor broke copyright and database laws in data raid on playground firm – OUT-LAW.com

Posted October 28th, 2008 in copyright, database right, news by sally

“An IT contractor who was part of a raid on a company, copied all of its electronic business records and locked staff out of computer systems, infringed copyright and database rights, the High Court has ruled.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 28th October 2008

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Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg – WLR Daily

Posted October 13th, 2008 in database right, EC law, law reports by sally

Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Case C-304/07); [2008] WLR (D) 312

“The ‘extraction’ of the contents of a database, which the database maker had the right to prevent, entailed an act of transfer of the contents to another medium, and included electronic copying and copying by a manual process.”

WLR Daily, 10th October 2008

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Database right prevents more than just cut ‘n’ paste copying, rules ECJ – OUT-LAW.com

Posted October 13th, 2008 in database right, news by sally

“A judgment by Europe’s highest court has strengthened the rights of database creators to protect their work from being used by third parties without permission. The database right protects against more than just copying and pasting, it ruled.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2008

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Database rights are too tough on business, says expert – OUT-LAW.com

Posted September 8th, 2008 in copyright, database right, electronic commerce, news by sally

“The European Union’s Database Directive is too restrictive and has the opposite of the desired effect of boosting e-commerce, an intellectual property expert has warned.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 5th September 2008

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Database right infringed when staff took customer lists, rules court – OUT-LAW.com

Posted January 8th, 2008 in confidentiality, database right, EC law, news by sally

“Employees who left a company to start up a rival breached that firm’s database rights when they took information with them, the High Court has ruled. The firm failed to prove, though, that the actions breached the company’s confidentiality.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 8th January 2008

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