Automated Databases
An automated database is a body of facts, data, or other information assembled into an organized format suitable for use in a computer and comprising one or more files. Computer databases are considered as compilations of data and are subject to copyright protection.
Copyright protection extends to the compilation of facts if the compilation represents original authorship. In some instances some or all the contents of a database, new or revised, may also be copyrightable, as in the case of a full-text bibliographic database.
Copyright protection is not available for the selection and ordering of data in a database where the collection and arrangement of the material is a mechanical task only and represents no original authorship, e.g., merely transferring data from hard copy to computer storage.
- Introduction
- Online Copyrights
- Websites and Online Content
- Website Updates
- Who Owns Your Website?
- Exclusive Rights
- Benefits of Copyright Registration
- Domain Names
- Source Code
- Software
- Computer Programs
- Automated Databases
- Who Can Register
- Work Made for Hire
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright Infringement
- Copying a Website
- Deep Linking
- Framing
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Non-Infringing Use
- Copyright Deposit or Date Stamp
