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Fédération de Russie

Droit d'auteur et droits connexes

Additional Follow-Up to Question 13: The Russian Federation's response explains that under the Russian Civil Code exclusive rights for works from a database and rights for a database itself are separate and "not absorbing each other." Please confirm our understanding that a copyrighted work that happens to be included in a database retains its separate copyright and that the right in the database only protects the overall selection, coordination and arrangement.

According to Article 1260 of the CC RF the author of database owns the copyright in the selection or arrangement of materials (compilation). The inclusion of the work in the database requires the consent of the author or other right holder of the original work. Author of the work, included in a database, has the right to use his work, regardless of the database, unless otherwise provided by the contract with the author of the database