Forumotion's Forum Databases

by Caihlem August 22nd 2007, 5:55 pm

Tutorial on the Forum Databases

Definition: A data base (data base or BDD) is a space allowing the mass storage of data in order to exploit them.
The data is stoked on a disc.

The Forum's database belongs to who?
The databases which your forums use are the single property of forumotion.com according to the article L. 341-1 of the law of July 1, 1998 on the protection of databases:

Art. L. 341-1 wrote:« Art. L. 341-1. - The producer of a database, heard like the person who takes the initiative and the risk of the corresponding investments, profits from a protection of the contents of the base when the constitution, the verification or the presentation of this one attests of a financial investment, material, human or substantial

Can I ask for the restitution of the database of my forum?
No, Forumotion.com reserves the right to restore or not a database of a forum to a third according to the article L. 342-1 of the law of July 1, 1998 on the protection of databases:

L. 342-1 wrote:« Art. L. 342-1. - The producer of databases has the right to prohibit:

"1o The extraction, by permanent or temporary transfer of the totality or of a part qualitatively or quantitatively substantial of the contents of a database on another support, by any means and in any form that it is;

"2o the re-use, by the availability of the public of totality or of a part qualitatively or quantitatively substantial of the contents of the base, whatever is the form

Sanctions:
The fact of not respecting these rights are by the law punished by up to two years of imprisonment and a fine of 150.000€
In the same way, groups can be declared responsible for these infringements penally.

In the event of repetition the sanctions are doubled.