Código Ingenios, protección de bases de datos
Art. 140 Código Ingenios (Código Orgánico de la Economía Social de los Conocimientos, Creatividad e Innovación), materia protegible por las bases de datos
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In force since 9 December 2016.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- A database's protection reaches only the originality of the selection or arrangement of its contents, not the underlying data itself, so scraping data out of a non-original or unoriginally-arranged database does not by itself infringe this article.
What this law does
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Article 140 protects a compilation of data or other material, in any form, as such, only where the originality of the selection or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation; that protection does not extend to the underlying data or information compiled, and does not affect any copyright or related right subsisting in the works or performances the compilation contains. The article also states that the protection it recognizes for databases does not apply to software.
Ecuador therefore has no sui generis database right of the European kind, protecting a producer's investment in obtaining, verifying, or presenting the contents regardless of originality; only a compilation-copyright model tied to originality of selection or arrangement.
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Read the law
Official Código Ingenios text (Registro Oficial Suplemento 899, 9 de diciembre de 2016)
reproduced by the Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información's Gobierno Electrónico portal