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Case Law C-30/14 (15/01/2015)

Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/15/2015

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases is not applicable to a database which is not protected either by copyright or by the “sui generis right”. The last right is the right for the maker of a database which shows that there has been qualitatively and/or quantitatively a substantial investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents to prevent extraction and/or re-utilisation of the whole or of a substantial part of the contents of that database. According to the Court, that directive do not preclude the author of such a database from laying down contractual limitations on its use by third parties, without prejudice to the applicable national law.

Parties: Ryanair Ltd

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing

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