Commentary

187 Database right, screen scraping and the draft EU Data Act

E-COMMERCE vol 13(3)

187 Database right, screen scraping and the draft EU Data Act

| Commentary

The Database Directive1, implemented by the Copyright and Database Right Regulations 19972, introduced a ‘database right’ into the law of England and Wales. This continues to apply despite the United Kingdom leaving the EU3. It is intended to enable database owners to prevent ‘unfair extraction’ and re-utilisation of data from their databases. This is increasingly significant in the context of e-commerce and website linking in Europe4. Broadly speaking, the arguments in support of the database

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