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Yellow Pages (Malta) Limited v Malta Directories Limited, 552/2005
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Yellow Pages (Malta) Limited v Malta Directories Limited, 552/2005
- Cita
- ECLI:MT:CIVP:2015:95253
- Tribunal
- Civil Court, First Hall, Malta
- Instancia
- tribunal nacional
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2015-06-17
- Estado
- resuelto-firmeza-no-verificada
- Resultado
- Damages of EUR 192,357 were awarded; stale-copy and injunction requests were rejected as unnecessary in light of elapsed time/evidence.
- Resumen
- Copyright in a database protects original selection or arrangement, not facts as such. The common errors and structure established extensive copying.
- Antecedentes
- Malta Directories reproduced extensive directory material from Yellow Pages, including trap entries and genuine errors.
- Historia procesal
- Final first-instance judgment in a database/directories infringement action.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether the selection or arrangement was the author's own intellectual creation and whether a substantial protected part had been copied.
- Criterio
- Copyright in a database protects original selection or arrangement, not facts as such. The common errors and structure established extensive copying.
- Fundamento decisivo
- The court applied the harmonised creation/intellectual-choice standard and used qualitative and quantitative copying evidence rather than rewarding investment alone.
- Límites
- First instance, non-AI and directed to directories/databases. It does not establish copyright in generated entries.
- Relevancia
- autoria-asistida
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- National support for protecting a human-curated architecture of outputs independently while refusing to project that layer onto each item. Integración/votación: Jacqueline Padovani Grima Single-judge judgment by Jacqueline Padovani Grima; no panel vote.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Yellow Pages (Malta) Limited v Malta Directories Limited, 552/2005
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Civil Court, First Hall, Malta
- Tipo
- national first-instance database originality and substantial-copying judgment; non-AI
- Tipo de evidencia
- primary_judicial_fulltext_official
- Método de comprobación
- Official PDF/indexed full text and official metadata reviewed.
- Localizador
- pp. 1-4 (claims/procedure); pp. 13-16 (originality); pp. 18-22 (copying/remedies/disposition)
- Verificación documentada
- Sí