The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997

General considerations: unreasonable discriminationU.K.

14.  In determining what is reasonable on a reference or application under this Schedule relating to a licensing scheme or licence, the Copyright Tribunal shall have regard to—U.K.

(a)the availability of other schemes, or the granting of other licences, to other persons in similar circumstances, and

(b)the terms of those schemes or licences,

and shall exercise its powers so as to secure that there is no unreasonable discrimination between licensees, or prospective licensees, under the scheme or licence to which the reference or application relates and licensees under other schemes operated by, or other licences granted by, the same person.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 2 para. 14 in force at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1(2)