The new Hungarian Copyright Act (Act LXXVI of 1999; hereinafter referred to as CA), which only just entered into force two years ago, has been modified from the effective date of 01.01.2002. The reason and essence of the modifications are the creation of a morely worked out and powerful legal instrument due to the increased protection of darabases, and with the same time, Hungary’s obligation for legal harmonization taken on against the European Union.
I. About the reasons that inducted the modifications
The need of modifications has reasoned partly by the technological development, mostly of computer technology. Nowadays it is widely known, that by the spreading of the information society, data – the information relating any elements of the world – have reached an importance never before experienced. Both the quantity of the accessible information and the connecting need of systematization and computerization, and the quality of information with the growing economical value, do
