Europe

eIFL response to the Commission consultation, March 2006 pdf

European Commission consultation on EU rules on databases, December 2005 Press release

Evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases pdf

Protection of databases in the European Union: Database Directive, case law, etc.

U.S.A.

American Library Association on database protection legislation
Resolution in Opposition to "Sui Generis" Database Protection. ALA Midwinter Meeting, 25.1.2006 pdf

Commentaries

The Database Right File - a unique collection of case law on the European sui generis database right: Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

James Boyle on the database right:
Two database cheers for the EU Financial Times, 2.1.2006
A natural experiment Financial Times, 22.11.2004

Football fixtures, horseraces and spinoffs: the ECJ domesticates the database right by Mark J. Davison & P. Bernt Hugenholtz in the European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR) 2005-3, p. 113-118 pdf