الحماية القانونية لقواعد البيانات على أساس الاستثمار الجوهري وفقا لقانون حق المؤلف : دراسة مقارنة

Abstract EN

This study aims at identifying the extent of the possibility of giving legal protection to data bases, in case of lake of originality, based on the important substantial investment both in kind and quantity or both together according to Copyright Law.

Some of the Copyright Laws, such as the French and German Copyright Laws reocognized the substantial investment of data base considering it a legal independent base by itself, where it shall be considered as qualified intellectual work for protection.

In laws in the Arab world governing copyright including the Jordanian Copyright Law, the data bases are not awarded any protection of author according to which is available positively or negatively on the availability and unavailability of this originality, whether the base included an substantial investment or not, in spite of the possibility of taking the substantial investment as a heavy condition standing independently in the should of these laws due to its importance at the practical scope.