8 July, 2017
The Singapore Court of Appeal has recently confirmed, in the case of Global Yellow Pages Limited v Promedia Directories Pte Ltd [1], that for a factual compilation such as a directory or a list to be protected by copyright there must be creativity in the selection and arrangement of the data.
However, an often-neglected consideration is that creativity alone is not enough, and it is equally important to show that the compilation was created by a human author working alone or in collaboration with others in order to establish authorship of the compilation.
As the cases have demonstrated, this may be a difficult task in the case of computer-generated works or when there is reliance on user generated content. View the full article here.
For further information, please contact:
Pin-Ping Oh, Bird & Bird
pin-ping.oh@twobirds.com
