Law No. 04/L-065 on the Right of the Author and Related Rights, Sui Generis Database Right
Law No. 04/L-065, arts. 147-153 (database right)
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Repealed: no longer in force, effective 15 December 2011.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- This law has been repealed and replaced by Law No. 08/L-205 (2023); the successor's text is not available through the official gazette site, so the database right described below is the repealed Act's, not confirmed as Kosovo's current law.
- Under the repealed Act, do not extract or re-utilise the whole of a database's contents, a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of it, or repeatedly and systematically extract insubstantial parts in a way that conflicts with the database's normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudices the producer's legitimate interests, without the database producer's authorisation.
- A lawful user may freely use only insubstantial parts of a database's contents, and may not act in a way that conflicts with the database's normal exploitation.
What this law does
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Kosovo's copyright statute created a sui generis right for a database producer, protected independently of any copyright in the database's contents. Article 148 extended that protection to the whole of a database's contents, to any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of it, and to a repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of insubstantial parts that conflicted with the database's normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudiced the producer's legitimate interests.
Article 149 gave the producer the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit reproducing, distributing, renting out, making available, or otherwise communicating the database to the public. Article 150 limited a lawful user to freely using only insubstantial parts of a database's contents and barred any act conflicting with its normal exploitation.
Article 153 set the right's term at fifteen years from the database's completion, or from its first lawful publication within that period, restarting on a substantial new investment in the database's content. Law No. 08/L-205 repealed this Act on 12 October 2023, and its own text is not available through the official gazette site, so it is not established whether Kosovo's current database right differs.
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Read the law
Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo (gzk.rks-gov.net), act document page, confirmed live directly (206 articles, Albanian text)
the law was repealed on 12 October 2023 by Law No. 08/L-205, whose own text is a PDF not extracted through the official gazette site