Amendment of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997
8. For regulation 28 (general savings) substitute—
“General savings
28.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations affects any agreement made before 1st January 1998.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations affects any agreement made after 31st December 1997 and before 1st November 2003 in so far as the effect would only arise as a result of the amendment of these Regulations by the Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003(1).
(3) No act done in respect of any database, in which database right subsists by virtue of the maker of the database (or one or more of its makers) falling within one of the provisions contained in Regulations 14(4) and 18(1)(a), (b) and (c),—
(a)before 1st January 1998, or
(b)after 31st December 1997, in pursuance of an agreement made before 1st January 1998,
shall be regarded as an infringement of database right in the database.
(4) No act done in respect of any database, in which database right subsists by virtue of its maker (or one or more of its makers) falling within one of the provisions contained in Regulation 18(1)(d), (e) and (f),—
(a)before 1st November 2003, or
(b)after 31st October 2003, in pursuance of an agreement made before 1st November 2003,
shall be regarded as an infringement of database right in the database.”.