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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.

From 1 to 9 February 1996, the sixth session of the Committee of Experts on a Possible Protocol to the Berne Convention and the fifth session of the Committee of Experts on a Possible New Instrument for the Protection of Rights of performers and Producers of Phonograms were jointly held (for reports on the previous sessions see : IRIS 1995-2: 3, IRIS 1995-4: 5-6 and IRIS 1995-10: 13). The discussions took place on the basis of a comparative table of proposals made by the participating parties, prepared by the International Bureau. Berne Protocol issues The issues of computer programmer and databases...

The Federal Constitutional Court recently refused to make an interim order allowing N-TV, a television news channel, to broadcast live from the courtroom during the trial of Egon Krenz, former East German leader and Party Chairman, on charges which included intentional homicide in connection with the shooting of people trying to escape across the border to West Germany. The presiding judge in the trial court had refused permission under Sections 176 and 169 of the Courts Act (Section 169, Sub-section 2 prohibits television coverage of court proceedings). N-TV appealed this decision to the Federal...

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. However, the Directive was finally adopted on 26 February 1996. So far, the Directive has not been published. The text of the Directive will be available from the Observatory after its official publication.

On 15 or 22 February 1996 the European Directive on the legal protection of databases has finally been adopted by the EU Council and the European Parliament. The Directive will protect authors and producers of databases and other collections of information against various acts of misappropriation. It offers protection at two levels: copyright in original collections and a novel sui generis right in respect of sui generis right, an invention by the Commission, aims at protecting the the contents of a database. The investment in obtaining, verifying or protecting the contents of the database. Thus...