Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Review of TRIPS Implementing Legislation

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6. Please explain how databases are protected under Dutch law, in view of TRIPS Article 10 which requires that databases based on factual information that constitute intellectual creations by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents be protected.

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Databases that constitute works in the sense of the Copyright Act are protected as collective works under Article 5 of the Copyright Act. A database will constitute a work in the sense of the Copyright Act, if it is an intellectual creation by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents.

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