Copyright Law, Sui Generis Database Right
Law of Ukraine No. 2811-IX, art. 21 (database sui generis right)
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In force since 31 March 2023.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not extract or re-utilise, without the database maker's authorization, the whole or a substantial part of the contents of a database whose maker made a qualitatively or quantitatively significant investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting those contents.
- A database created to systematize information that is public information under the Law on Access to Public Information does not carry this sui generis right.
What this law does
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Article 21 protects a database (a compilation of data) by copyright where its selection or arrangement of contents is the result of creative activity, but that protection does not extend to or prejudice rights in the database's individual contents or in a computer program used to create or needed to operate it.
Separately, article 21(4)-(8) confers a sui generis right on the maker of a database who has made a qualitatively or quantitatively significant investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting its contents, protecting against extraction and re-utilisation of the whole or a substantial part of the database, for 15 years from completion of the database's creation (or from first publication, if that occurs within the initial term), with a fresh 15-year term for a substantial new investment in the database's contents.
A database created to systematize information that is public information under the Law on Access to Public Information is carved out of the sui generis right.
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Read the law
Official consolidated text of Law No. 2811-IX "On Copyright and Related Rights" on the Verkhovna Rada legislative database
(zakon.rada.gov.ua)