新《著作权法》对数据库的法律保护

The Legal Protection of Database by the New Copyright Law

著作权保护是对数据库法律保护中最普遍和典型的方式。按我国最近修订的《著作权法》的规定 ,在对数据库的著作权保护方面 ,是将数据库归入汇编作品予以著作权保护 ;保护的判断标准是“对其内容的选择或编排上”的独创性 ;保护对象是数据库对内容的选择和编排 ,而不延及数据库的内容和操作数据库的计算机程序 ;保护范围是以作品、作品片段、数据或其他材料为内容的数据库。上述体现了我国数据库著作权保护已全面符合 TRIPS协定的要求。

Among the legal methods of protection of database, copyright protection is the most main and classical one. According to the newly amended Copyright Law of China, a database is protected as a compilation; and a database compiling preexisting works in whole or in part, or compiling data or other material, is protected; and such protection only bases on the intellectual creation of the selection or arrangement of its contents; and the object of such protection is the intellectual creation of the selection or arrangement of its contents, but shall not extend to the contents and the computer programs which operate the database.