Chapter II: Scope of protection

The database producer has the right to prohibit: 1° Extraction, by permanent or temporary transfer of all or a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the contents of a database to another medium, by any means and in any form whatsoever; 2° Reuse, by making all or a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the contents of the database available to the public, in any form whatsoever. These rights may…

The producer may also prohibit the repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of qualitatively or quantitatively insubstantial parts of the contents of the database where such operations manifestly exceed the conditions of normal use of the database.

When a database is made available to the public by the rightholder, the rightholder may not prohibit: 1° The extraction or re-utilisation of a non-substantial part, assessed qualitatively or quantitatively, of the content of the database, by the person who lawfully has access to it; 2° The extraction for private purposes of a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part of the contents of a non-electronic database subject to respect for copyright…

Effective technical measures within the meaning of Article L. 331-5 which are capable of preventing or limiting the uses of a database that the producer has not authorised pursuant to Article L. 342-1 benefit from the protection provided by Article L. 335-4-1. Database producers who make use of the technical protection measures referred to in the first paragraph shall, however, take appropriate steps to ensure that their implementation does not…

Information in electronic form relating to the rights regime of the producer of a database, within the meaning of Article L. 331-11, benefit from the protection provided for in Article L. 335-4-2.

The first sale of a material copy of a database in the territory of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, by the rightholder or with his consent, exhausts the right to control the resale of that material copy in all Member States. However, the online transmission of a database does not exhaust the right of the…

The rights provided for in article L. 342-1 take effect upon completion of the manufacture of the database. They expire fifteen years after 1 January of the calendar year following that of such completion. Where a database has been made available to the public before the expiry of the period provided for in the previous paragraph, the rights expire fifteen years after 1 January of the calendar year following that…

Chapter VIII of Title III of Book I is applicable to the rights of database producers.