UrhG Sections 76c to 76e, Sui Generis Database Right
UrhG Sec. 76c-76e, BGBl. Nr. 111/1936
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In force since 1 January 1998.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not extract or re-utilize the whole, or a substantial part, of a database that required a substantial investment to compile, verify, or present, without the producer's authorization, per UrhG Section 76d.
- Do not repeatedly and systematically extract or re-utilize insubstantial parts of such a database where this conflicts with its normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudices the producer's legitimate interests, per UrhG Section 76d.
What this law does
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A database whose compilation, verification, or presentation required a substantial investment is protected as such under Section 76c, independent of any copyright in its contents.
Section 76d gives the database's producer the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publicly communicate, and make available the whole database or a substantial part of it, and treats the repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilization of insubstantial parts the same way where this conflicts with the database's normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudices the producer's legitimate interests.
Section 76e voids any contractual term by which a lawful user agrees not to extract or re-utilize insubstantial parts, to the extent that doing so neither conflicts with normal exploitation nor unreasonably prejudices the producer. The right lasts fifteen years from completion, or from publication if the database is published within that period.
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Read the law
Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG), JUSLINE Osterreich consolidated text