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Databases
In some cases, a frequently updated online work may constitute an automated database. A group of updates, published or unpublished, to a database, covering up to a 3-month period within the same calendar year, may be combined in a single registration. For more information about registering databases, request Circular 65, “Copyright Registration for Automated Databases.” All updates from a 3-month period may be registered with a single application and $30* filing fee.
Copyright Registration for Automated Databases
DEFINITION
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.
The copyright law does not specifically enumerate databases as copyrightable subject matter, but the legislative history indicates that Congress considered computer databases and compilations of data as “literary works” subject to copyright protection. Databases may be considered copyrightable as a form of compilation, which is defined in the law as a work “formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.”
EXTENT OF 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:
ideas, methods, systems, concepts, and layouts
individual words and short phrases, individual unadorned facts, and
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
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Copyright Registration for Automated Databases
