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CLSR. A. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Directive on Rental and Lending Rights (OJ 1992 L346/61) The Directive on Rental and Lending Rights harmonizes certain areas of sound recording and film rights and requires Member States to provide a rental right in respect of certain copyrights. The UK has yet to implement the Directive. The proposed implementation date for the UK is 1 December 1996.
Regulations to implement the Directive on the term of protection of copyright, which (amongst other things) extends the basic term of protection from the life of the author plus 50 years to the author's life plus 70 years, came into force in the UK on 1 January 1996. The most controversial aspect of the regulations is likely to be the provisions dealing with the extension of protection for works which only recently fell out of protection.
The Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases adopted on 11 March 1996 is intended to harmonize protection of databases. Databases which are original (in the sense of the Software Directive) in their selection or arrangement enjoy copyright protection. In addition databases, irrespective of whether they qualify for copyright protection or not, are to enjoy a 15 year right to forbid unauthorized extraction or re-utilization of substantial parts of the contents of the database for commercial purposes. The required date for implementation for the Directive is
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