Abstract
Since the Database Directive 96/9 (“DBD”) was implemented in the United Kingdom in 1997 via the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (“DBR”), the range of potential rights in a collection of data has been expanded from the previous simple copyright protection to include sui generis database rights and database copyright. There also remains the potential for the content to have its own copyright. The DBD aimed to harmonise the treatment of rights in databases across Europe. Before this, in the UK for example, protection had been via copyright as a compilation which was seen as a form of literary work and was dependent on the skill, labour and ingenuity of the compiler in creating the compilation.
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