21.12.2015
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 429/5
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 29 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof — Germany) — Freistaat Bayern v Verlag Esterbauer GmbH
(Case C-490/14) (1)
((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Legal protection of databases - Directive 96/9/EC - Article 1(2) - Scope - Databases - Topographic maps - Independence of materials constituting a database - Possibility of separating those materials without affecting the value of their informative content - Account taken of the purpose of a topographic map for the user))
(2015/C 429/06)
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Bundesgerichtshof
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Freistaat Bayern
Defendant: Verlag Esterbauer GmbH
Operative part of the judgment
Article 1(2) of Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases must be interpreted as meaning that geographical information extracted from a topographic map by a third party so that that information may be used to produce and market another map retains, following its extraction, sufficient informative value to be classified as ‘independent materials’ of a ‘database’ within the meaning of that provision.
(1) OJ C 34, 2.2.2015.
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