Client Testimonials
"As the UK's fastest growing multi channel integrated communications/contact centre business, it is vital for The Listening Company to work with a law firm that understands our business drivers and business model, from both a commercial and legal perspective, can handle our increasing requirements, and has the expertise and experience to support us in contract negotiations with our clients.
Waterfront ... as a whole and Carole Hailey in particular understand the outsourcing sector so well that they actually fulfil the role of an in house General Counsel, bringing expert contract review and drafting skills to bear, with limited briefing from us; and stand up against our client's lawyers in contract negotiation where necessary, often against firms much larger than themselves. They only spend time on the major issues and translate our commercial objectives into a legal framework.
I recommend them without hesitation."
Trevor Brown, Chief Operating Officer, The Listening Company
Database Rights
From 1998 a new right came into effect in UK, namely the database right. The aim of this legislation is to provide more certain protection than that already provided by copyright. The purpose of this new database right is to protect the investment in a database. A database right arises automatically at no cost to you.
A database will qualify for protection if the creator/owner of the database is an EEA resident and the database is a "collection of individual works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way" and either qualitatively or quantitatively there has been a substantial investment in either the getting, checking or presenting of the contents of the database. If your database qualifies for protection then you can enforce your rights against businesses that extract or reutilise a substantial part of your database, or alternatively repeatedly extract and re-utilise an insubstantial part.
If you suspect that someone is using or copying large parts of your database or repeatedly using small parts of your database on a regular basis without your permission, we can advise whether this amounts to database right and/or copyright infringement and recommend a appropriate strategy for you, be it litigation or settlement based.