Sui Generis and Database Protection

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This 14 page paper considers the protection that is granted to databases under EU law with the application of sui generis, which is embedded in Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases. The protection that is afforded is discussed and the way this has changed since Simon Chalton posed a rhetorical question in the title to his 2001 article "Database Right: Stronger than it Looks?" The bibliography cites