SCHEDULE 2LICENSING OF DATABASE RIGHT

Licensing scheme and licensing bodies

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In this Schedule a “licensing scheme” means a scheme setting out—

a

the classes of case in which the operator of the scheme, or the person on whose behalf he acts, is willing to grant database right licences, and

b

the terms on which licences would be granted in those classes of case;

and for this purpose a “scheme” includes anything in the nature of a scheme, whether described as a scheme or as a tariff or by any other name.

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In this Schedule a “licensing body” means a society or other organisation which has as its main object, or one of its main objects, the negotiating or granting, whether as owner or prospective owner of a database right or as agent for him, of database right licences, and whose objects include the granting of licences covering the databases of more than one maker.

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In this paragraph “database right licences” means licences to do, or authorise the doing of, any of the things for which consent is required under Regulation 16.