EU Council/European Parliament: Directive on the legal protection of databases adopted - Part 3: Epilogue?
IRIS 1996-4:1/7
Ad van Loon
European Audiovisual Observatory
In IRIS 1996-2: 13 we reported on the adoption of the Directive on the legal protection of databases. We indicated that the Directive would be adopted on 15 or 22 February. At the International UNESCO Symposium on Copyright and Communication in the Information Society, held in Madrid from 11-14 March 1996, the Commission announced that the Directive was in the end adopted on 26 February 1996. We reported this in IRIS 1996-3: 6. Then after the publication of IRIS 1996-3 we learned that the official date of the adoption of the Directive is 11 March 1996.
References
- Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996 concerning the legal protection of databases, OJEC of 27 March 1996 No L77: 20.
- http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996L0009:EN:HTML
This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.