The development of a database industry is the basis for the construction of an information society. In China, there is not yet a legal definition of what constitutes a database. Scholars explain it as “a compilation of information, systematically organized according to a given purpose and given requirements, that has undergone screening in a particular way”.
Although the world has entered the information age, the legal protection of databases in China remains unsatisfactory.
Protection under copyright law
Article 14 of the PRC Copyright Law states: “As regards the compilation of several works, fragments of works or data or other materials that do not constitute a work, where the selection or arrangement of their contents reflects originality it is a compiled work the copyright of which is enjoyed by the compiler.”
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