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Chapter 5
Duration of Database Right
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Term of protection of database right.
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325.—(1) The database right shall expire 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which the making of the database was completed.
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(2) Where a database is lawfully re-utilised before the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (1), the database right in the database shall expire 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which the database was first so re-utilised.
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(3) Any substantial change to the contents of a database, including a substantial change resulting from the accumulation of successive additions, deletions or alterations, which would result in the database being considered to be a substantial new investment shall qualify the database resulting from that investment for its own terms of protection under this section.
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(4) This section applies notwithstanding paragraph 45 of the First Schedule.
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