Information Is Important And An Imperative For The Conduct...

Information in this digital age is very important and an imperative for the conduct of business and commerce; [ ] and today one of the most important result.[ ] The unauthorised access to information and databases and the constant and reckless methods information is shared and transmitted today has necessitated that databases and compilations should be protected. It was held in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co.[ ] that compilations or databases cannot be a subject matter for copyright.[ ] The security and protection of databases and compilations have been advanced in several ways including ‘low authorship’, ‘tort-mis-appropriation’ model and ‘Nordic sui generis. It precluded the adoption of data.[ ] In an effort to†¦show more content†¦It will also include discussion on databases compilations. We will be considering the EU Directive on data protection, it will review primary laws and legislation and also secondary sources of information; it will determine the effectiveness of the convergences and divergences and evaluate their effectiveness and finally make conclusions and recommendations if any. 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Meaning of Databases and compilations Databases in copyright are principally kinds of compilation, and compilations are seen as things that are being protected . So in defining compilation, we can say that A â€Å"compilation† is defined in the  § 101 definitions section as: â€Å"A work formed by the collection and assembling of pre-existing materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. This evidences that the protection of copyright in a compilation emphasizes and concentrates on the original ways that the data or materials that pre-existed are arranged, organized, coordinated and selected, not the data. In s. 102 the subject clearly shows and comprises of compilations and derivative works, but only