Ustawa o ochronie baz danych, Sui Generis Database Right
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In force since 10 November 2002.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Get the producer's authorization before extracting or reusing a substantial part, by quality or quantity, of a protected database's contents; the right runs 15 years from the database's completion or first public availability.
- Do not repeatedly and systematically extract or reuse even an insubstantial part of a database in a way that conflicts with its normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudices the producer's legitimate interests.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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A database's producer, the person bearing the investment risk of making it, holds an exclusive and transferable right to extract or reuse the whole or a substantial part, by quality or quantity, of its contents, running 15 years from the year the database was made, or from the year it was first made available to the public if that happens within the initial term, restarting on any subsequent substantial new investment.
A lawful user may extract or reuse an insubstantial part for any purpose without the producer's permission, but Article 8(2) separately bars repeated and systematic extraction or reuse, of even an insubstantial part, that conflicts with the database's normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudices the producer's legitimate interests, and a contract term contrary to the lawful user's Article 7 rights is void.
On infringement, the producer may seek an injunction, removal of the infringement's effects, damages on general principles or as a statutory multiple, restitution of profits, and a court order for publication of the judgment.
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Read the law
Dziennik Ustaw
consolidated text of the Act on the Protection of Databases, published as the Marshal of the Sejm's announcement of the unified text