‘A recent ruling highlights the need for businesses accessing data from third parties to make sure that their intended use of that data is covered by the licensing terms on which the data is being made available, an expert in intellectual property law has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st November 2019
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A recent High Court case demonstrates that companies will usually need to carry out their own internal investigations before being able to successfully obtain certain court orders in cases of suspected employee fraud, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th January 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Companies can invest significant sums in the creation and maintenance of their client lists. Unsurprising, their client lists are often closely guarded. But what if protections fail? Under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, firms can bring actions against those that access and download their client list (for instance, a former employee). The wronged party can demand the return or destruction of the confidential information, an injunction to prevent its use and damages for any losses.’
Henderson Chambers, July 2018
‘UK businesses will lose any database rights they enjoy across the EU at the point of Brexit as it stands, the European Commission has said.’
OUT-LAW, 3rd April 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A recent court decision on infringement of IP in an ECG screening service shows how components of the service qualify for different forms of protection. Reliance on less obvious IP rights can offer valuable cover for a business’s assets even in the absence of patent protection.’
Technology Law Update, 11th September 2017
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘A PDF version of a document can constitute a database and information contained in it can be protected by database rights, the High Court in London has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th September 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘This was an action for infringement of database right and copyright in an electrocardiogram (“ECG”) analysis and reporting system known as ECG Cloud.’
NIPC Law, 2nd September 2017
Source: nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘A rogue employee leaving their employer and taking with him confidential information such as a customer or pricing list can potentially cause significant damage to the ex-employer’s business.’
Littleton Chambers, 12th July 2016
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘Online aggregators that engage in ‘screen scraping’ face a threat to their business models following a ruling by the EU’s highest court, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th January 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A publisher engaged a database manager to maintain a database of subscribers. There was no a formal contract and no provisions for termination were agreed. The relationship ended badly and the publisher gave a month’s notice. The database manager refused to release the database until outstanding fees and damages were paid – raising an old-style legal concept that was useful in the days before modern contracts.’
Technology Law Update, 20th March 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
“The market leader in the sale of liquid propane gas (LPG) in the UK has been found vicariously liable for the infringement of database rights belonging to a rival.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Police chiefs face a legal challenge over their policy of keeping secret files on thousands of political activists.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A sharp rise in the number of privacy hearings in British courts has been fuelled by requests for ‘irrelevant’ personal information to be removed from police and other state databases, figures show.”
The Independent, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Pursuant to article 7 of Parliament and Council Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, a sui generis database right subsisted in a database consisting of information gathered live at football matches as those matches proceeded. It was not the case that there could be no article 7 right unless there was investment in collecting together materials which had already been recorded.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Website operators can be held responsible for database rights infringement by their users if that infringement was ‘inevitable’ as a result of actions of the site operators, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The High Court will determine whether a Dutch company, its managing director and two employees are liable for infringements of database rights and copyright as well as a breach of confidence after rejecting claims that the case should be heard in the Dutch courts.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Individuals who access information about football goals that is stored in a database do not infringe on the database rights of football authorities, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Football Dataco Ltd and Others v Yahoo! UK Ltd and Others (Case C-604/10); [2012] WLR (D) 57
“A ‘database’ within the meaning of article 1(2) of Directive 96/9/EC was protected by the copyright laid down by article 3(1) of the Directive provided that the selection or arrangement of the data which it contained amounted to an original expression of the creative freedom of its author, which was a matter for the national court to determine.”
WLR Daily, 1st March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Databases of football fixture lists are not protected by EU database copyright laws because the creation of the fixtures themselves is not part of what the EU law protects, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A UK police force breached database rights and misused confidential information stored on a company’s database when it shared the data on an online law enforcement forum, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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