On 21st November 2017, a workshop was conducted in the context of the study on the legal protection of databases. The ultimate objectives of the workshop were two-fold. It aimed, firstly, to collect further evidence on the impacts that the Directive 96/9/EC has been having on the database users...

The online survey consists of two questionnaires targeting database users, makers and user-makers, and experts. The questionnaire for database users, makers and user-makers was launched on 29th September 2017, and invitations were sent out in several batches. The expert questionnaire followed on...

The aim of this analysis is to assess the impact of the Database Directive from an economic point of view. It is based on different sorts of relevant evidence, including quantitative data, expert views gathered in a workshop, stakeholder interviews and survey answers. The remaining of this...

The 1996 Directive on the legal protection of databases (Database Directive) aims at supporting the development of the European database industry. It created a sui generis right protecting investments of database makers, regardless of the originality of databases, and harmonised copyright law...