Protecting IP
Section 3
Database Rights
Some practical tips to help protect your database rights are set out below:
Practical tips
Keep all your notes, records of telephone
conversations and meetings, e-mails, contact details
and other correspondence which you used to collect
and compile the information contained in your
database.
Keep all your working drafts and original copies of
your database in a secure place. If stored
electronically ensure it is password protected.
Record the date when you created the final database:
again, a good way to do this is to put the work in an
envelope unopened.
Alternatively, if stored electronically, e-mail the
database to yourself or somebody independent, such
as a solicitor. The postal stamp or the date of the
e-mail can be used to demonstrate the date before
which it was created.
©
Place a copyright notice (for example, © J Bloggs
2013 or © University of Knowledge 2013) at the
bottom of the database.
Insert some intentional but irrelevant mistakes or
anomalies in the database.
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