Thinking about this - and following a comment made earlier - they may have a case as regards the database being abused; either they created the database and/or the methods used in storing the media within it, or they have purchased the software and have a license for its usage and restrictions (even if voluntary) as regards access to it and the information contained.
It may be that even if the original work or its photographic derivative cannot be copyrighted, its digitilised stored form and the software used in storing and accessing it can be?
(Disclaimer; I am not a legal practitioner, and, simply coincidentally, once worked from an address very close to Lincoln Inn Fields.)
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