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- and must comply with Section 4.4.
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- Database in the collection, but this License still applies to this Database
- or a Derivative Database as a part of the Collective Database;
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- the public and therefore does not fall under the requirements of Section 4.4.
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- or a Produced Work from a Derivative Database, You must also offer to recipients
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- of making the alterations to the Database (such as an algorithm), including
- any additional Contents, that make up all the differences between the Database
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- b.) any terms or any technological measures on the Database, a Derivative
- Database, or the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents that alter or
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- communicate the Database, the whole or Substantial part of the Contents, or
- any Derivative Database to anyone else in any way, the Licensor offers to
- the recipient a license to the Database on the same terms and conditions as
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- possible by the law of the relevant jurisdiction under Section 10.4;
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- illustration for teaching or scientific research, and Extraction or Re-utilisation
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- Re-utilise insubstantial parts of the Contents, evaluated quantitatively or
- qualitatively, for any purposes whatsoever, including creating a Derivative
- Database (subject to other rights over the Contents, see Section 2.4). The
- repeated and systematic Extraction or Re-utilisation of insubstantial parts
- of the Contents may however amount to the Extraction or Re-utilisation of
- a Substantial part of the Contents.
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- terminates this License with immediate effect and without notice to You. For
- the avoidance of doubt, Persons who have received the Database, the whole
- or a Substantial part of the Contents, Derivative Databases, or the Database
- as part of a Collective Database from You under this License will not have
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- Database under different license terms or to stop distributing or making available
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