Database Rights

1. What is protected

The UnicornBurn database — comprising over 6,842 documented business failures with editorially assigned analytical fields (cause categories, collapse styles, hype cycle positions, survival timelines, moat types, archetype classifications and related metadata) — constitutes a database in which substantial investment has been made in obtaining, verifying and presenting its contents.

This database is protected by the sui generis database right established in EU Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, and transposed into Spanish law by Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996 (Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, Libro II). The protection period is 15 years from the date of completion, renewable upon substantial new investment.

2. Rights of the database maker

As maker of this database, Unicorn Burn OÜ has the right to prevent extraction and/or re-utilisation of the whole or of a substantial part of the contents of the database (Article 7, Directive 96/9/EC). This right applies irrespective of whether the individual entries are themselves protected by copyright.

Repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of insubstantial parts may also constitute extraction or re-utilisation of a substantial part of the database and is equally prohibited.

3. What is permitted

The following uses are permitted without requiring prior authorisation, provided proper attribution to UnicornBurn is included:

• Citing individual cases in journalistic, academic, or educational work
• Accessing and viewing content through the UnicornBurn website or authorised API under your plan's stated limits
• Generating and retaining reports, exports and outputs for your own internal professional use
• Sharing platform-generated reports with your clients or stakeholders as part of normal professional activity

4. What requires authorisation

The following uses require prior written authorisation from UnicornBurn:

• Extracting or downloading a substantial portion of the database (whether in a single operation or through repeated smaller extractions)
• Incorporating database content into a third-party product, service, or publication at scale
• Using the database to train machine learning models for commercial redistribution
• Reselling or sublicensing any portion of the database as a standalone dataset
• Systematic scraping of autopsy pages, rankings, or any other structured content on this platform

5. Attribution requirements

Any permitted use of UnicornBurn data must include clear attribution in the following form:

Attribution must appear in a manner that is visible and accessible to the end reader of the work in which the data is used.

6. Data licensing

If you are interested in a data licensing agreement — for research partnerships, media integrations, academic datasets, or API-based product integrations — please contact us. We offer structured licensing with defined scope, attribution requirements, and usage limits.

Licensing enquiries: legal@unicornburn.com

7. Enforcement

Unicorn Burn OÜ actively monitors for unauthorised extraction and re-utilisation of its database. Infringement of these rights may result in legal action under applicable EU and national law, including claims for damages, injunctions, and costs.

To report suspected infringement or request removal of content: legal@unicornburn.com

8. Governing law

These database rights are governed by EU Directive 96/9/EC and its national transpositions. For matters relating to Spain, the applicable law is Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996 (Ley de Propiedad Intelectual). Disputes are subject to the competent courts of Spain.