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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:39 am
What are ancillary copyrights and which of them must be observed online?
While copyright protects individual, original content, related rights are intended to protect the investment of time, effort and, above all, money in the creation of content. They are often the result of efforts by certain industries to protect their products.
The ancillary copyrights are also included in the Copyright Act, are often subject to the same exceptions as copyrights, but have shorter terms (copyrights expire 70 years after the death of the author):
The relevant online ancillary copyrights include:
Related rights for photographers – Copyright protects chinese america data so-called “photographic works”, i.e. images that are individually original due to the choice of motif, light or colors. However, simple snapshots are also protected by the related rights for so-called “photographs” for 50 years from their creation (Section 72 of the Copyright Act).
Related rights for databases – Anyone who collects data in a structured manner can rely on protection as a database work in the case of an individually original collection (e.g. an individually compiled anthology of quotations or poems). In addition, any collection of data into which a significant amount of work or money has been invested is invoked under the related rights for databases (Section 87a ff of the Copyright Act). The threshold is not high and has already been accepted for a collection of 251 links to educational topics on a website that was created according to a specific testing and selection process (LG Köln, 28 O 527/98 ). The removal of insignificant parts of the database, in this example, for example some of the links, remains permissible (rule of thumb: under 50%, but if you want to be on the safe side, stay under 25%). The protection of a database expires 15 years after its publication.
Related rights for press publishers – Since the copyright reform in June 2021, products from press publishers have also been protected by their own related rights for two years (§§ 87f ff. UrhG).
The ancillary copyright for press publishers is to be introduced as part of the EU copyright reform. What does this mean for bloggers, for example?
The ancillary copyright for press publishers was initiated in Germany by publishers such as Springer as an "anti-Google law". This was intended to force search engines and news aggregators such as Google to pay license fees to press publishers, including for the use of short snippets, for example in Google News. In practice, only the use of the title of an article and individual words was permitted.
While copyright protects individual, original content, related rights are intended to protect the investment of time, effort and, above all, money in the creation of content. They are often the result of efforts by certain industries to protect their products.
The ancillary copyrights are also included in the Copyright Act, are often subject to the same exceptions as copyrights, but have shorter terms (copyrights expire 70 years after the death of the author):
The relevant online ancillary copyrights include:
Related rights for photographers – Copyright protects chinese america data so-called “photographic works”, i.e. images that are individually original due to the choice of motif, light or colors. However, simple snapshots are also protected by the related rights for so-called “photographs” for 50 years from their creation (Section 72 of the Copyright Act).
Related rights for databases – Anyone who collects data in a structured manner can rely on protection as a database work in the case of an individually original collection (e.g. an individually compiled anthology of quotations or poems). In addition, any collection of data into which a significant amount of work or money has been invested is invoked under the related rights for databases (Section 87a ff of the Copyright Act). The threshold is not high and has already been accepted for a collection of 251 links to educational topics on a website that was created according to a specific testing and selection process (LG Köln, 28 O 527/98 ). The removal of insignificant parts of the database, in this example, for example some of the links, remains permissible (rule of thumb: under 50%, but if you want to be on the safe side, stay under 25%). The protection of a database expires 15 years after its publication.
Related rights for press publishers – Since the copyright reform in June 2021, products from press publishers have also been protected by their own related rights for two years (§§ 87f ff. UrhG).
The ancillary copyright for press publishers is to be introduced as part of the EU copyright reform. What does this mean for bloggers, for example?
The ancillary copyright for press publishers was initiated in Germany by publishers such as Springer as an "anti-Google law". This was intended to force search engines and news aggregators such as Google to pay license fees to press publishers, including for the use of short snippets, for example in Google News. In practice, only the use of the title of an article and individual words was permitted.