Sunday 30 March 2014

No Common Law Lien On Electronic Database

Your Response Ltd. v Datateam Business Media Ltd. [2014] EWCA Civ 281


The Court of Appeal found that a common law lien could not be exercised over intangible objects such as an electronic database because the protection accorded to the makers of databases by certain other enactments (such as the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997) reflected that databases do not represent tangible property of a kind that is capable of forming the subject matter of claims concerning an interference with possession.

No comments:

Post a Comment