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The US has for IP protections: copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret. There is no “similar to” copyright.

Databases can be copyrightable. Not all are, but to the extent IP protection extends to databases it will virtually always be copyright, with maybe an occasional trade secret (which is almost the opposite of copyright)



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