Copyright Act, 1993 (as amended by Act 13 of 2015), compilations
Copyright Act, 1993 (Act 5 of 1993, as amended by Act 29 of 1999), s. 3(3A)
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In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Copying a compilation's selection and arrangement can infringe the compilation's own copyright, but extracting the underlying works, data, or other material it comprises does not, because no sui generis database right protects that material separately.
What it reaches
Obligation class
TDM
What this law does
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Section 3(3A), inserted into the base 1993 Act by the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1999 (Act 29 of 1999), s. 3, provides that copyright subsisting in a literary work that is a compilation does not extend to the works, data, or other material the compilation comprises, and does not affect any copyright that may separately exist in that underlying material. The Act's marginal citation identifies the inserting amendment but does not itself state that amendment's own commencement date.
Jamaica accordingly protects a compilation's selection and arrangement as a literary work but confers no sui generis database right of the kind the EU recognises; the word "database" does not appear anywhere in the Act.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Text of the Copyright Act
1993 (Act No. 5 of 1993, as amended by Act No. 29 of 1999 and Act No. 13 of 2015), Laws of Jamaica, Ministry of Justice