The Copyright and Rights in Databases (Amendment) Regulations 2003
The Regulations implement the provisions of an Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on behalf of the Isle of Man and the European Community extending to the Isle of Man the legal protection of databases as provided for in Chapter III of Directive 96/9/EC, signed at Brussels on 26th March 2003. This Agreement comes into force on 1st November 2003.