Law No. 94-036, protection of databases as compilations
Loi n° 94-036, art. 6 et 7 (protection des banques de données)
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In force since 6 November 1995.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Reproducing the selection or arrangement of a protected Malagasy database compilation without the compiler's authorization may infringe this right, independently of whether the underlying data or works are themselves protected.
What this law does
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Article 6 extends copyright protection to authors of anthologies or compilations of diverse works or expressions of folklore, and to databases under the terms of article 7, without prejudice to the rights of the authors of the original works included.
Article 7 defines a database as a compilation of data or other information, or of extracts of works, or of entire works, in electronic or other form, and confines protection to the selection and arrangement of the materials rather than to the underlying data or works themselves; where the compilation is of works, the compilation and the constituent works are protected independently, and where it is a compilation of information, only the compilation itself is protected.
This is a copyright-style protection of the compiler's selection and arrangement of materials, not a right created independently of any originality in that selection or arrangement.
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Read the law
English-and-Malagasy bilingual text of Loi n° 94-036 hosted by the Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (CEJA)