Jankowska Marlena, Cartographic work as a database after the Court of Justice judgment of 29 October 2015

There has long been a desire to define appropriate legal protection for interactive and digital works, mostly converging on the potential legal regimes for protection of databases, which break down to copyright and the sui generis right. This discussion mirrors the long-standing commentary on multimedia works in German and Polish literature, which causes a lot of confusion when it comes to a proper qualification. As it seems that the best possible choice in the case of interactive works would be database right protection, this paper will shed some light on the prerequisites of a definition of a database, which may make it difficult, if not even impossible, for digital maps to gain any sui generis protection. The recent Court of Justice judgment of 19 October 2015 helps put our findings into context.