Vol.2, No 3, 2005 pp. 277 - 282
UDC 004.65+347.78(497.2)
THE NEW DATABASE LEGISLATION IN BULGARIA
Maria Markova
"Intellectual property" Department, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
In the last four years some very important changes in the Bulgarian Copyright and related rights law were made, in particular in the years 2000 and 2002. The greatest changes concerned one specific object of intellectual property, namely databases. Subjects of research in this paper are databases as intellectual products. The most important issues studied in the present paper are the legislative changes with regard to: the legal definition of the term database; some important moments in this definition are pointed out, which lead to a better understanding of  the characteristics of a database; the copyright protection of a database and the sui generis rights system; the rights holders. The changes set out three groups of rights holders: authors; makers of databases; users of databases; the scope of the exclusive rights of each of these groups; the possibilities of civil law and administrative law protection of the rights of authors and makers of databases; terms of protection of the rights to database.
ZAKONSKE ODREDBE ZA BAZE PODATAKA
U poslednje četiri godine su donesene neke vrlo važne promene u zaštiti autorskih prava u Bugarskoj kao i slični zakoni o autorskim pravima, naročito one donesene u godinama 2000 i 2002. Najveće promene se odnose na osoben predmet intelektualnog vlasništva, naime, baze podataka.
Predmeti istraživanja u ovom članku su baze podataka kao intelektualni produkti. Najznačajnije teme koje se proučavaju u ovom članku su zakonske promene s obzirom na; zakonsku definiciju termina baze podataka; neke bitne momente u ovoj definiciji koji su istaknuti, a koji omogućavaju bolje razumevanje karakteristika baza podataka; zaštitu autorskih prava koja se odnose na baze podataka i samosvojstven sistem prava; nosioce prava.
Promene ustanovljuju tri grupe nosioca prava; autore, tvorce baza podataka, korisnike baza podataka; raspon ekskluzivnih prava svake pojedinačne grupe; mogućnosti gradjansko pravne i administrativno pravne zaštite prava autora i tvoraca baza podataka; uslovi zaštite prava baze podataka.