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by vertis 1906 days ago
There are definitely jurisdictions where this has been found not to be the case. In Australia the protection of databases is incredibly murky[1].

Telstra, the privatized government telecom company, failed to protect the White Pages data from another company that, if I remember correctly, had put it on CD (ah those were the days).

[1]: https://www.mondaq.com/australia/copyright/290668/can-a-data...