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Chapter 3 Self-test questions
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Chapter 3 Self-test questions
Computer programs and databases
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Which of the following statements is true about the CA's judgment in the case
SAS Programming v World Software
It held that the syntax of individual commands forming part of a programming language were protectable by copyright
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The provisions in the Software Directive that deny protection for the "ideas underlying the programme and its interfaces" reflect general principles of copyright law, so they also applied to the claim for infringement of copyright in the software manual
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It held that computer program copyright could only be infringed by literal copying of code
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It held that copyright in a computer program could be infringed by making a program that achieved the same function
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Which of the following statements is most accurate:
It is a not an infringement make a back-up copy of a work
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It is not an infringement for a lawful user to de-compile a computer program
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Lawful users of a program can do what they like with it
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It is not an infringement for a lawful user to decompile a program in order to create an independent inter-operating program
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Which of the following is true about the protection of databases under EU law:
If a collection of data does not comply with the definition of a database, it is not protected by copyright
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If a collection of data complies with the definition of a database, database right arises
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The Database Directive only covers the protection of collections of data that fall within the definition of a database
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If database right applies, copyright does not
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Copyright in a database:
only exists if the database is the author's own intellectual creation
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requires that skill and labour is used in the selection or arrangement of the contents of the database
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protects against the extraction of data from the database
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does not protect databases where the intellectual creation went towards creating the data, rather than selecting or arranging it
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The Sui Generis right in databases
Protects the investment in the obtaining, verifying or presenting of the data in the database
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Provides for the ownership of data
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Can only be infringed if aspects of the database structure are taken
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Can protect an individual item of data
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Which of the following statements is true
Database right belongs to the person who created the database
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Database right in a database lasts for a fresh term of 15 years from whenever a substantial further investment is made in the database
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Database right can be infringed by repeated downloading of data from the database provided the data is kept each time so as to assemble a substantial part of the database
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Databases which are freely available on the internet are not protected by database right
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