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Copyright of data

  • 01-10-2012 12:17pm
    #1
    Javan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭


    In Irish or European law is there any concept of copyright that can apply to facts or a collection of facts?

    ... I read a notice on the new Residential Property Price Register website: 'All of the information featured on our website is the copyright of the Property Services Regulatory Authority unless otherwise indicated.'
    It seems to me that the database compiled and available for download from that site is not eligible for copyright protection, at least in so far as it is a collection of facts.


Comments

  • #2
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    I think the copyright notice is nonsense. It's an equivalent of the UK online land registry. Other websites use their database for their own presentation of the same data.

    It's an interesting site. I've already found some surprising transactions.


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Individual facts can't be copyrighted. Databases can.

    That copyright is primarily there to stop people trying to re-sell teh information.

    Re-use of public information rules probably apply.

    http://psi.gov.ie/


  • #4
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2000/en/act/pub/0028/index.html

    Section 321 on deals with databases.


    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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