Copyright Act, 2024, protection of compilations of data
Copyright Act, 2024 (No. 14 of 2024), s. 4(3) (compilations of data)
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In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- A compilation of data is protected by copyright only if its selection or arrangement is the author's own intellectual creation; the protection does not extend to the underlying data or other material within it.
What this law does
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Section 4(3) makes a compilation of data or other material, in machine-readable or other form, eligible for copyright protection as a literary work only if, by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents, the compilation constitutes the author's own intellectual creation, and expressly provides that this protection does not extend to any data or other material forming part of the compilation.
The Act creates no separate sui generis database right of the kind some jurisdictions grant to a database's maker regardless of originality, so a non-original compilation, or the underlying data within an original one, is not protected on this ground. The Act was assented to on 25 June 2024 and published in Official Gazette No. 36 of 2024 on 4 July 2024, repealing the prior Copyright Act, Cap. 18.08, but its text does not separately state a commencement day distinct from its enactment.
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