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This articles deals with the issue of 'sui generis protection of databases'. Recently, the information and databases are essential for the development of national and global economy, which highly depends on the database production of high quality and of large quantity. However, it is required database-maker to invest vast amount of monetary and human resources. Since the advent of digital technology and internet made original databases are being threatened, and legal protection is necessary for maintaining and promotion those incentives. On the other hand, the legal protection of databases premises on their social use after their production. Each unit of information, which comprises of databases, is essential for the education, research and so forth. Sometimes a databases is the sole source, from which certain information can be obtained. Therefore, it is also an essential part in a legislation of databases to make sure that access to databases for education, research or science purposes is not denied as long as incentives to produce databases are not threatened. This articles presents the adequacy of copyright protection for databases and gives the overview of the present international legal framework for 'sui generis protection of databases'. The main scope of this articles is the legislation decisions of Europe United and Korea for protecting the databases. Finally, this paper makes recommendations on the legal protection countermeasure for the growth of domestic database industry.
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Database, EU Database-guideline, Copyright Act, Misappropria- tion, Sui Generis Protection, Sui Generis Right
