Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-203/02The British Horseracing Board Ltd and Others v William Hill Organization Ltd
- Decided
- 2004-11-09
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2004:695
- CELEX
- 62002CJ0203
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Directive 96/9/EC - Legal protection of databases - Sui generis right - Obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents of a database - (In)substantial part of the contents of a database - Extraction and re-utilisation - Normal exploitation - Unreasonable prejudice to the legitimate interests of the maker - Horseracing database - Lists of races - Betting.
Interprets
Read from EU:s publikationsbyrå, Cellar (EUR-Lex och CURIA) on 2026-08-22.
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