The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997

[^key-d74946f253d831b9c0df4d6e62b042d5]: Reg. 18(4)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 28(3)(c) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Exceptions to database right: deposit libraries

20A

• (1) Database right in a database is not infringed by the copying of a work from the internet by a deposit library or person acting on its behalf if—

• (a) the work is of a description prescribed by regulations under section 10(5) of the 2003 Act,

• (b) its publication on the internet, or a person publishing it there, is connected with the United Kingdom in a manner so prescribed, and

• (c) the copying is done in accordance with any conditions so prescribed.

• (2) Database right in a database is not infringed by the doing of anything in relation to relevant material permitted to be done under regulations under section 7 of the 2003 Act.

• (3) Regulations under section 44A(3) of the 1988 Act exclude the application of paragraph (2) in relation to prescribed activities in relation to relevant material as (and to the extent that) they exclude the application of section 44A(2) of that Act in relation to those activities.

• (4) In this Regulation—

• (a) “the 2003 Act” means the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003;

• (b) “deposit library” and “relevant material” have the same meaning as in section 7 of the 2003 Act.

Acts permitted on assumption as to expiry of database right

Presumptions relevant to database right

Application of copyright provisions to database right

Licensing of database right

Database right: jurisdiction of Copyright Tribunal

Exceptions to database right: Marrakesh beneficiaries

20B

Database right in a database is not infringed by the making of an accessible copy of a work under sections 31A, 31B or 31BA of, or paragraphs 3A, 3B or 3C of Schedule 2 to, the 1988 Act for the benefit of a Marrakesh beneficiary.

Acts permitted on assumption as to expiry of database right

Presumptions relevant to database right

Application of copyright provisions to database right

Licensing of database right

Database right: jurisdiction of Copyright Tribunal