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Europe has database rights, which has a fair dealing exemption for data analysis.
by anticensor 7y ago
Europe has database rights, which has a fair dealing exemption for data analysis.
- fauigerzigerk 7y agoI'm not sure what "database rights" refers to specifically, but the whole matter is actually rather complicated, because the EU copyright directive has a lot of optional exceptions that member states may or may not adopt. Most of these exceptions only apply to non-commercial use though. So they wouldn't apply in a case like hiQ. UK specific exceptions are explained here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright Unfortunately, both Labour and the Tories have taken a relatively hard line in the EU copyright negotiations, so it seems unlikely that things will be relaxed very much after Brexit.
- anticensor 7y agoDatabase rights are a copyright-like intellectual property regime for databases.