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Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000
Database right.
321.—(1) A property right to be known and in this Part referred to as the “database right” subsists, in accordance with this Part, in a database where there has been a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting the contents of the database.
(2) Subject to this Act, the owner of the database right may undertake or authorise others to undertake certain acts in the State in relation to the database, being acts which are designated by this Act as acts restricted by the database right.
(3) For the purposes of this section it is immaterial whether or not the database or any of its contents is a copyright work.
(4) The database right shall not subsist in a database unless the requirements specified in this Part with respect to qualification are complied with.
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Modifications (not altering text):
C20
Application of section restricted (22.07.2021) by European Union (Open Data and Re-use of Public Sector Information) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 376 of 2021), reg. 3(6), in operation as per reg. 1(2).
Limit on application, etc.
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(6) The database right provided for in section 321 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000) shall not be exercised by public sector bodies in order to prevent the re-use of documents or to restrict re-use beyond the limits set by these Regulations.